Behind the teacher who shaped the leading lights of Impressionism lies a painter far less academic than he might seem.

In The Bacchae, Euripides recounts the descent of Dionysus to the city of Thebes to impose the rites of his worship. King Pentheus refuses to recognise this new god and suffers Dionysus’ wrath.

The city’s grim history also included the tale of the Theban King Pentheus and the wine-god Dionysus. Pentheus had tried to ban him from the city as a bad influence. This proved to be the king’s ...

King Pentheus becomes Stavros, a wealthy, controlling figure married for decades to Hedy, Lena’s best friend.

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The ancient Greeks considered Dionysus the 12th Olympic god. He was not taken seriously by his father Zeus nor by most of the other gods.

After two sold-out runs at The Crypt in 2023, Sleepwalk Immersive’s Bacchanalia and the world of Thebes has returned to London, this time at Hoxton Hall. The show, directed by Sebastian Huang ...

He dresses Pentheus in furs and skins and sends him up a tree so he can safely spy on the Maenads. Unsurprisingly, he tells the Maenads where Pentheus is immediately.

Dionysus himself then enters, having deliberately allowed himself to be arrested in his disguise as the long-haired Lydian leader of the Dionysian priests (“the Stranger”), and he is questioned by the ...

Pentheus, who has just risen to power, refuses to accept the rituals and the divine status of Dionysus, and by virtue of his power bans the spread of the new religion.

A tragedy of mysticism, ecstasy and brutality, Euripides’ “Bacchae”, will be presented by the National Theatre, on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 August, at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, as ...