Chapter 14: Thebes
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♦ Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 10.221a-f: six fragments of Attic red-figure psykter by Euphronios, with torso of Pentheus (named) and two Mainades tearing him apart, left one named Galene.
P. Hartwig, “Der Tod des Pentheus,” Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 7 (1892) pl. 5
L.D. Caskey and J.D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1931) no. 66
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♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung 1966.18: Attic red-figure hydria with Mainades holding different parts of Pentheus’ dismembered body.
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♦ Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1912.1165. Attic red-figure stamnos by the Berlin Painter, with Mainades holding leg and head of Pentheus
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♠ Euripides, Bakchai
Dionysus
I, the son of Zeus, have come to this land of the Thebans—Dionysus, whom once Semele, Kadmos’ daughter, bore, delivered by a lightning-bearing flame. And having taken a mortal form instead of a god’s, [5] I am here at the fountains of Dirke and the water of Ismenus. And I see the tomb of my thunder-stricken mother here near the palace, and the remnants of her house, smouldering with the still living flame of Zeus’ fire, the everlasting insult of Hera against my mother. [10] I praise Kadmos, who has made this place hallowed, the shrine of his daughter; and I have covered it all around with the cluster-bearing leaf of the vine. Continue Reading Greek Text
♠ FGrH 3F22 Pherekydes – Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 67-68, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
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