The House of Thebes
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Pentheus sending out guards to find Dionysus.

Pentheus heard that a new cult had come to his city and that the cult leader claimed to be the divine son of Zeus and Semele. Enraged by this, Pentheus sent out his guards to find and arrest Dionysus


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