Les bacants

Dionysus, with a mortal appearance, arrives in Thebes to institute his cult there, but Pentheus, the young king of the city, opposes it with a despotic attitude: he captures some vacancies of the Dionysian retinue and imprisons the god, despite warnings. which they do to him about the benefits that Dionysus bestows on humans. However, blindness and arrogance always succumb to the unfathomable power of nature, as you can read in one of the most striking outcomes that ancient Greek literature has given us. The vacancies is an almost inexhaustible tragedy, it never leaves us indifferent, because, apart from its intrinsic beauty, it perhaps reveals the unresolved contradictions that always remain within us.