Pentheus

Family: Theban · Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.5

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Pentheus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Pentheus)

Life events

• Agave, maddened by Dionysus, tore Pentheus limb from limb.(Apollodorus, Library 3.5 · 📍 Cithaeron)
  • With: Dionysus Agave
  • “And coming to Cithaeron to spy on the Bacchanals, he was torn limb from limb by his mother Agave in a fit of madness”

Apollodorus, Library 3.5

• parent: Agave (Agave is Pentheus's mother.) “But Pentheus, whom Agave bore to Echion, had succeeded Cadmus in the kingdom, and he attempted to put a stop to these proceedings.”
• parent: Echion (Echion is Pentheus's father.) “But Pentheus, whom Agave bore to Echion, had succeeded Cadmus in the kingdom, and he attempted to put a stop to these proceedings.”
• with Cadmus (Pentheus succeeded Cadmus in the kingdom.) “But Pentheus, whom Agave bore to Echion, had succeeded Cadmus in the kingdom, and he attempted to put a stop to these proceedings.”
• enemies with Agave “And coming to Cithaeron to spy on the Bacchanals, he was torn limb from limb by his mother Agave in a fit of madness; for she thought he was a wild beast.”
• friends with Lycus “they were enrolled as citizens through their friendship with Pentheus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.