Still others seem him as sexually repressed, as signified by his assuming the garb of a woman in order to see his mother's wild orgies.
He has been identified as an ascetic martyr, killed in his crusade against the irrational tide of religious fanaticism. Others suggest that he was a myopic psychopath who was unable to accept human nature as it stood, and tried to suppress it. Still others seem him as sexually repressed, as signified by his assuming the garb of a woman in order to see his mother's wild orgies. In the end, though, the Maenads care nothing about these critical opinions - they, along with his mother, tear him limb from limb and affix his head to a staff during a religiously induced frenzy. FTP, identify this son of Agave and cousin to Dionysus.
He has been identified as an ascetic martyr, killed in his crusade against the irrational tide of religious fanaticism.
{Pentheus}