Picture No | 10082048 |
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Description | Pentheus and Dionysos |
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Pentheus, king of Thebes, opposes the orgiastic cult of Dionysos/Bacchus, but he is torn to pieces by the god's wild followers, the Bacchantes
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Source | engraving by J Briot in Renouard's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, circa 1610, page 89 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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