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<p>[QUOTE="svessien, post: 4593196, member: 15481"][ATTACH=full]1137362[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>From what I am able to google, Plutarch wrote that during this triumph of Orodes II, the head of Crassus was held up by an actor as Euripedes' <i>Bacchae</i> was being performed before the king. One can vividly imagine this scene:</p><p><br /></p><p>«<i>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.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>After the messenger has relayed this news, Agave arrives, carrying her son's bloodied head. In her god-maddened state, she believes it is the head of a mountain <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion#Eurasia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion#Eurasia" rel="nofollow">lion</a>. She proudly displays it to her father, Cadmus, and is confused when he does not delight in her trophy, but is horrified by it. Agave then calls out for Pentheus to come marvel at her feat, and nail the head above her door so she can show it to all of Thebes. But now the madness begins to wane, and Cadmus forces her to recognize that she has destroyed her own son. As the play ends, the corpse of Pentheus is reassembled as well as is possible, the royal family devastated and destroyed. Agave and her sisters are sent into exile, and Dionysus decrees that Cadmus and his wife <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_(mythology)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_(mythology)" rel="nofollow">Harmonia</a> will be turned into snakes and leads a barbarian horde to plunder the cities of Hellas.</i>» (Wikipedia).</p><p><br /></p><p>Dio relates a different end, but not a much better one: "And the Parthians, as some say, poured molten gold into his mouth in mockery; for though a man of vast wealth, he had set so great store by money as to pity those who could not support an enrolled legion from their own means, regarding them as poor men" (XL.27).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="svessien, post: 4593196, member: 15481"][ATTACH=full]1137362[/ATTACH] From what I am able to google, Plutarch wrote that during this triumph of Orodes II, the head of Crassus was held up by an actor as Euripedes' [I]Bacchae[/I] was being performed before the king. One can vividly imagine this scene: «[I]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. After the messenger has relayed this news, Agave arrives, carrying her son's bloodied head. In her god-maddened state, she believes it is the head of a mountain [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion#Eurasia']lion[/URL]. She proudly displays it to her father, Cadmus, and is confused when he does not delight in her trophy, but is horrified by it. Agave then calls out for Pentheus to come marvel at her feat, and nail the head above her door so she can show it to all of Thebes. But now the madness begins to wane, and Cadmus forces her to recognize that she has destroyed her own son. As the play ends, the corpse of Pentheus is reassembled as well as is possible, the royal family devastated and destroyed. Agave and her sisters are sent into exile, and Dionysus decrees that Cadmus and his wife [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_(mythology)']Harmonia[/URL] will be turned into snakes and leads a barbarian horde to plunder the cities of Hellas.[/I]» (Wikipedia). Dio relates a different end, but not a much better one: "And the Parthians, as some say, poured molten gold into his mouth in mockery; for though a man of vast wealth, he had set so great store by money as to pity those who could not support an enrolled legion from their own means, regarding them as poor men" (XL.27).[/QUOTE]
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