In classical history According to a biography written by the ancient historian Plutarch, after his defeat and death at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC, the head of Roman general and statesman Marcus Licinius Crassus was sent to the Parthian emperor Orodes II and used "as a prop, standing in for the head of" Pentheus in a production of Euripides' The Bacchae.
In classical history According to a biography written by the ancient historian Plutarch after his defeat and death at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC the head of Roman general and statesman Marcus Licinius Crassus was sent to the Parthian emperor Orodes II and used "as a prop standing in for the head of" Pentheus in a production of Euripides' The Bacchae