HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pentheus, Euripides, Lightning
30 Mar 2016
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Dionysus appears in human form and explains to the audience the circumstances of his birth. He was born of zeus and semele, but no one believed semele that she was carrying zeus" baby. Zeus" lightning killed semele at the time of his birth. Now, dionysus returned to thebes where he was born, and put all of thebes" women in a craze, running wildly about in the mountains as revenge for them not believing semele. Cadmus (father to semele and agave) gave power to agave"s son pentheus, who is very young. Tiresias and cadmus dress with ivy wreaths and fawnskins in honour of dionysus. Dionysus wants revenge over pentheus because he does not pray to dionysus. Pentheus takes custody of human form, blond dionysus. Pentheus sentences dionysus to death by stoning, dionysus says that pentheus will be punished by dionysus. Pentheus puts dionysus in jail, dionysus tricks pentheus into tying up a bull and not him,
