That adaptation also includes an antiphonal chant commanding the earth to shake, retch, and melt, and it ends with red liquid spurting out of a severed head, which one character drinks, claiming that it is wine, not blood.
In one adaptation of this play, the main character's first lines are a speech demanding order and proclaiming another character to be a charlatan. That adaptation also includes an antiphonal chant commanding the earth to shake, retch, and melt, and it ends with red liquid spurting out of a severed head, which one character drinks, claiming that it is wine, not blood. That adaptation, which adds a second chorus of slaves, is subtitled "A Communion Rite." In this play, a god notes that the main character is appropriately named, since his name derives from a word meaning "grief." The main character of this play sees double when he is dressed up as a woman, and he receives news from a herdsman that a group of people is engaging in sparagmos on Cithaeron. At the end of this play, Agave slowly realizes that she has killed her own son. For 10 points, name this Euripides play in which Pentheus is torn apart by the title group of maenads.
In one adaptation of this play, the main character's first lines are a speech demanding order and proclaiming another character to be a charlatan.
The Bacchae