Personal History is Made

... good choice. But as you may possibly see, Tolkein's has effected me for the moment. And so it was, with the wisdom of Tolkein's world building and LeGuin's language, I set about inventing my own world. pentheus was the first hear it's creation myth, and the time I told it to him was the best. I think because of that, he's been one of my best editor-fans. Then I found a first edition ...

I'm a bad mother-father, mother-father!

....2 Appellations * 2 Mythology o 2.1 Birth o 2.2 Childhood o 2.3 Other stories + 2.3.1 Midas + 2.3.2 Pentheus + 2.3.3 Hestia + 2.3.4 Lycurgus + 2.3.5 Prosymnus + 2.3.6 Ampelos + 2.3.7 Chiron + 2.3.... * 2 Mythology o 2.1 Birth o 2.2 Childhood o 2.3 Other stories + 2.3.1 Midas + 2.3.2 Pentheus + 2.3.3 Hestia + 2.3.4 Lycurgus + 2.3.5 Prosymnus + 2.3.6 Ampelos + 2.3.7 Chiron + 2.3...

Nala and a Little History on Self-Exile

... out that he had killed his father and slept with his mother (Sophocles) Medea sent herself into exile to follow Jason into Corinth (Euripedes). Agave went into self exile after killing her son Pentheus (Euripedes) Thyestes was sent into exile after raping his brother's wife (Aeschylus) Orestes was sent into exile by his mother Clytaemnestra but returned to kill her in the garb of a ...

... the divine wrath of Dionysus against the city of Thebes when Pentheus, the heir of Thebes' ruling family, ridicules, insults, and then later sets out to destroy the maenads that travel with Dionysus. Pentheus' family ends up suffering dead or cursed and pretty much miserable (... Dionysus saved Thebes from having to go to war by tricking Pentheus isn't every brought up). Though the play can be ...

"Sacred Madness" - Greek mythology fan fiction

.... A/N: Written for Yuletide. Pentheus watched the priest, who looked back ... with unwholesome pleasure, was one that Pentheus lingered on for an unexpectedly long ... desires that he alone can satisfy." Pentheus scoffed. "Who has he afflicted? ..., the word intoxicating made substance, and Pentheus drank till the goblet was empty.... and unhurried. "Who are you?" Pentheus asked as he stood, fumbling, ...

By his shining and his power she knew him...

...Thebes is ruled by Dionysos' cousin Pentheus, though their grandfather Cadmus is still...of the Stranger, all of which Pentheus cannot stand--and so the ... unfitting in the mortal one: Pentheus, in his sanity, is the ... the woman who played Agave, Pentheus' mother, did seem to be ... and historical axes--how is Pentheus, really, to see what he ... know that Agave is clutching Pentheus' head to her breast, but ...

The fun continues, August 10-16

... is evil), or maybe I should say, "Yay, drinking!" since if you mess with Bacchus he will harm you. Bacchus was a studly Jonathan Groff. Anthony Mackie (so good in "The Hurt Locker") was King Pentheus, and had a memorable drag scene. The large, gangly man next to me fidgeted constantly, draping himself over the railing (we were in the front row of a section) and at one point moving my purse strap ...

Today's Events!

... Shakespeare in the Park production will officially open Aug. 24 and will continue through Aug. 30. Jonathan Groff leads a cast that also features André DeShields as Teiresias, Anthony Mackie as Pentheus, George Bartenieff as Cadmus, Karen Kandel as Chorus Leader, Joan MacIntosh as Agave, Steven Rishard as Cowherd and Rocco Sisto as Messenger. There is an article on Groff here .  On Aug. ...

From Bombs to

...park. I hear there’s some great cross-dressing in the show. What happens at “The Bacchae,” stays at “The Bacchae. ” [Laughs]. Pentheus, towards the end of the play, is lured into ecstasy by Dionysius. Dionysius tells Pentheus the only way he can see the Bacchae is if he dresses up as a woman, because if he’s a man, ...

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Anthony Mackie

...s starring in Shakespeare in the Park's staging of The Bacchae , directed JoAnne Akalaitis. Mackie will play Pentheus, a young king whose obsession with/hatred of the god Dionysus lands him in a dress, not to ... Can you tell me something about her approach to this play? AM: A lot of times with Pentheus, they take his dressing up like a woman lightly. They kind of contemporize it and make him dress...