Agave

Family: Thebes · Role: mother of Pentheus · First appears: Fable 37

Life events

• Tiresias predicts Bacchus’s arrival and Pentheus’s violent death for refusing divine honors.(Fable37)
  • With: Tiresias Pentheus Bacchus Semele Autonoë
  • “For soon the day will come, and even now I predict that it is not far off, when the new {God} Liber, the son of Semele, shall come hither. Unless thou shalt vouchsafe him the honor of a temple, thou shalt be scattered, torn in pieces, in a thousand places, and with thy blood thou shalt pollute both the woods, and thy mother and the sisters of thy mother.”
• Pentheus is torn apart by the Bacchantes, including his mother and aunts.(Fable37 · 📍 Cithæron)
  • With: Pentheus Autonoë Ino
  • “At the sight Agave howls aloud, and tosses her neck, and shakes her locks in the air; and seizing his head, torn off, with her blood-stained fingers, she cries out, ‘Ho! my companions, this victory is our work!’”

Fable 37

• child: Pentheus “He was the son of Echion and Agave, the daughter of Cadmus.”
• parent: Cadmus “Athamas was the son of Æolus, and being the husband of Ino, was the son-in-law of Cadmus; who being the father of Agave, the mother of Pentheus”
• with Pentheus (Agave participates in Pentheus's dismemberment.) “At the sight Agave howls aloud, and tosses her neck, and shakes her locks in the air; and seizing his head, torn off, with her blood-stained fingers, she cries out, ‘Ho! my companions, this victory is our work!’”

Fable 44

• child: Pentheus “Agave having assisted in tearing to pieces her own son Pentheus”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.