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PENTHEUS , in See also:Greek See also:legend, successor of See also:Cadmus as See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Thebes. When See also:Dionysus, with his See also:band of frenzied See also:women (See also:Maenads) arrived at Thebes (his native See also:place and the first See also:city visited by him in See also:Greece), Pentheus denied his divinity and violently opposed the introduction of his See also:rites. His See also:mother See also:Agave having joined the revellers on See also:Mount See also:Cithaeron, Pentheus followed and climbed a lofty See also:pine to See also:watch the proceedings. Being discovered he was torn to pieces by Agave and others, who mistook him for some See also:wild beast. His See also:head was carried back to Thebes in See also:triumph by his mother. Labdacus and See also:Lycurgus, who offered a similar resistance, met with a like fearful end. Some identify Pentheus with Dionysus himself in his See also:character as the See also:god of the See also:vine, torn to pieces by the violence of See also:winter. The See also:fate of Pentheus was the subject of lost tragedies by See also:Thespis and See also:Pacuvius.
See See also:Euripides, Bacchae, passim; See also:Ovid, Metam. iii. 511; See also:Theocritus See also:xxvi; See also:Apollodorus iii. 5, 2; See also:Nonnus, Dionysiaca, xliv–xlvi; on representations in See also:art see O. See also:Jahn, Pentheus and See also:die Mainaden (1841).
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