Pentheus is torn apart by his mother Agave and aunt Ino, as punishment for having refused to worship
Pentheus is torn apart by his mother Agave and aunt Ino, as punishment for having refused to worship Dionysus (cf. Euripides’ Bacchae). Alternate title: Death by Chiropractors. Lid of an Attic red-figure lekanis (cosmetics bowl), unknown artist, ca. 450-425 BCE. Now in the Louvre. -- source link
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