King Pentheus Timeline and Summary

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• Returns to Thebes upon hearing rumors of the upheaval.
• Talks a lot of junk about Dionysus.
• Chastises Tiresias and Cadmus for going off to worship Dionysus.
• Orders his men to mess up Tiresias's house.
• Also orders that the Stranger from Lydia (really Dionysus) be arrested.
• Criticizes/admires the Stranger's feminine looks.
• Tries to find out what the Dionysus's rituals are really like.
• Locks up the Stranger.
• Freaks out when the Stranger escapes, amidst earthquake and lightning.
• Threatens to kill all the Bacchants.
• Agrees to dress up like a woman to spy on the Maenads
• Is beguiled by Dionysus.
• Worries about his own feminine good looks.
• Is led through town by Dionysus dressed like a woman.
• Spies on the Maenads from the top of a tree.
• Is ripped apart by Agave and the other Maenads.