Euripides' Bacchae

• Prologue: Dionysus (cf. Aphrodite in Hippolytus)
• Parodos: chorus of Dionysus' followers
• Cadmus and Tiresias will worship Dionysus, Pentheus refuses
• Pentheus imprisons Dionysus in disguise
• Dionysus ruins Pentheus' palace with an earthquake and escapes
• messenger speech: failed attempt to capture Bacchae
• Dionysus persuades Pentheus to disguise himself as a women and watch Bacchae
• messenger speech: death of Pentheus
• Agave returns carrying Pentheus' head
• Dionysus appears and exiles Agave and Cadmus (cf. Artemis in Hippolytus)

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