Pentheus

Let the Halls of Pentheus fall, and we know that the secret city of the soul, the eternal Sodom of empathic ethics, will rise in its place.

Outer Alliance Pride Day Hal Duncan 2009

But it is his proclamations that doom Pentheus, his rationalist disdain of mystery, the fact that he has Dionysus thrown in chains.

Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

A reader wouldn't be wrong to apply that to the Pentheus/Dionysus relationship in Hinter's Knights; that Pentheus hates the "girly" Dionysus but ends up in a dress himself is not insignificant.

Fanfiction Hal Duncan 2010

Ruptura numen: In The Bacchae by Euripedes, we have the monstrum dicta of Pentheus the tyrant, King of Tears, who has denied the god Dionysus his due.

Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Let the Halls of Pentheus fall, we Libertines say.

Outer Alliance Pride Day Hal Duncan 2009

Go look at the entries linked under "Dionyus vs Pentheus" and you'll see that my focus is still generally on my own turf, my home front -- art and literature.

Save Kiana Firouz Hal Duncan 2010

King Pentheus must have felt a similar alarm when his mother and her sisters turned into Maenads, and he wasn't wrong, because in their sacred frenzy they finally did tear him limb from limb.

Madison Smartt Bell: American Terror Madison Smartt Bell 2011

The tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agavë, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus 'cousin) for refusing to worship him.

Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

King Pentheus must have felt a similar alarm when his mother and her sisters turned into Maenads, and he wasn't wrong, because in their sacred frenzy they finally did tear him limb from limb.

Madison Smartt Bell: American Terror Madison Smartt Bell 2011

To be sure, Pentheus hubristic decrees forbidding the Bacchic rites to take place in his city are transgressions of the natural order, rupturae on a higher level.

Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009