When the female worshipers are miraculously released, Pentheus feels compelled to see the rites, but is hacked to pieces by the women, including among them his own mother Agave.  
It concerns the young, still beardless king of Thebes, Pentheus.  A puritan, he detests the sexual excesses associated with traditional forms of worships, and imprisons many of the participants including even a god.  When the female worshipers are miraculously released, Pentheus feels compelled to see the rites, but is hacked to pieces by the women, including among them his own mother Agave.  FTP name this play by Euripides about the Dionysian rites.
It concerns the young, still beardless king of Thebes, Pentheus.  
the Bacchae or Bacchantes