Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733. Latin Text with Commentary

• Main Authors: Gildenhard, Ingo (Author), Zissos, Andrew (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: [Place of publication not identified] Open Book Publishers [2016]
• Series: Open textbook library.
• Subjects: Humanities > Textbooks; Rhetoric > Textbooks
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This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells...