Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Pentheus.
In play
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The Bacchae
Euripides
Euripides' tragedy keeps Pentheus on every modern stage — the Theban king torn by maenads as the emblem of a city that refuses the god.
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Pentheus
Pentheus endures as the cautionary name for the ruler who spies on ecstasy and is destroyed by what he forbids.