... argument." In this play Euripides sho! ws many cases of black humor. For example, when Pentheus is wearing woman's dress with his hemline all askew. The Bacchae opens with Dionysus grieving over his mother's death. Hera outraged by Zeus's infidelity kills Semele, Dionysus's mother, with a lightning bolt while she is pregnant with ... Dionysus will punish him. For when he harmed the stranger it is the god he put in prison. The stranger then cries to his Bacchae from within. The Bacchae (the chorus) then cry that the house of Pentheus will soon fall in ruins. The earth shakes and his hou...

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