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Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733


Author: Gildenhard, Ingo
Source: OAPEN

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"This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale ...