<P> A messenger arrives to report that once they reached Mount Cithaeron , Pentheus wanted to climb an evergreen tree to get a better view and the stranger used divine power to bend down the tall tree and place the king in its highest branches . Then Dionysus , revealing himself , called out to his followers and pointed out the man in the tree . This drove the Maenads wild . Led by Agave , his mother , they forced the trapped Pentheus down from the tree top , ripped off his limbs and his head , and tore his body into pieces . </P>
<P> A messenger arrives to report that once they reached Mount Cithaeron , Pentheus wanted to climb an evergreen tree to get a better view and the stranger used divine power to bend down the tall tree and place the king in its highest branches . Then Dionysus , revealing himself , called out to his followers and pointed out the man in the tree . This drove the Maenads wild . Led by Agave , his mother , they forced the trapped Pentheus down from the tree top , ripped off his limbs and his head , and tore his body into pieces . </P>
who was torn apart by maenads at the end of the bacchae
who was torn apart by maenads at the end of the bacchae
Pentheus
Pentheus