Agave (daughter of Cadmus)
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In Greek mythology, Agave, was the daughter of Cadmus and a princess of Thebes. She is most well known for her role in the myths surrounding her nephew, Dionysus, god of wine.
Pentheus being torn apart by Agave and Ino
Pictura loquens; sive Heroicarum tabularum Hadriani Schoonebeeck enarratio et explicatio (1695)
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The Death of Pentheus
The Bacchae
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The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Thea
Agave (daughter of Cadmus)
…a brother, Polydorus. Agave married Echion, one of the five Spartoi, and was the mother of Pentheus, a king of Thebes, and Epirus. In Euripides' play The Bacchae, Semele, while pregnant with Dionysus, was tricked by Hera into witnessing the true form of Zeus, and was destroyed by the sight. Agave, Ino, and Autonoë…
Dionysus with two Maenads, female worshipers and part of his retinue. c. 550–530 BC
American student production, 2012