Pentheus
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 11 anchored passages
child of Echion · my master · son of Echion and Agave · the child of Echion
in the texts
Bacchae
The young king of Thebes, grandson of Kadmos, who violently opposes the worship of Dionysus and is manipulated toward his own destruction.
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Letters
Mythological king of Thebes torn apart by Maenads, invoked as an image for the city torn apart by demonic forces.
that, in the manner of Pentheus, certain real Maenads, demons, have torn her apart.
Stromata
Mythical Theban king torn apart by the Bacchae in Euripides' play, used as a simile for divided philosophical schools.
Truth, then, being one (for falsehood has ten thousand byways), the schools of philosophy, both the barbarian and the Greek, like the Bacchae tearing apart the limbs of Pentheus, each boasts of the part it has obtained as though it were the whole truth;