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The Bacchae has 5 acts.
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Prologue and Parodos
Dionysus arrives in Thebes in human disguise and explains his mission directly to the audience. His own cousin Pentheus refuses to recognize him as a god, and the whole city of Th…
First Episode
Pentheus enters and immediately shows who he is: a man furious that order is slipping away. He has heard that women are abandoning their homes for the mountains, and he blames a f…
Second Episode
This is where the play shifts from political confrontation to supernatural demonstration. Dionysus escapes from prison through a miraculous earthquake and fire that destroys part…
Third Episode
This episode contains the most psychologically strange scene in the play. Dionysus dresses Pentheus in women's clothing and a wig, preparing him for his spy mission to the mountai…
Exodus
The play ends with catastrophe reported and then witnessed. A second messenger arrives and describes what happened on the mountain: Agave and the other Bacchants spotted Pentheus…
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