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“Dionysus has allowed himself to be hunted down and insulted; he uses his divine powers to escape and gradually makes his captor into a ready victim for his instruments, the `deadly herd', Agave's `coursing hounds'. Pentheus' temporal authority is progressively revealed as impotence in relation to the unfolding power of the god; and since king and god are in direct conflict it follows that the victim will become the aggressor, the hunted the hunter, and vice versa."
G.S.Kirk
https://youtu.be/GIW0-GGosXM
“Dionysus has allowed himself to be hunted down and insulted; he uses his divine powers to escape and gradually makes his captor into a ready victim for his instruments, the `deadly herd', Agave's `coursing hounds'. Pentheus' temporal authority is progressively revealed as impotence in relation to the unfolding power of the god; and since king and god are in direct conflict it follows that the victim will become the aggressor, the hunted the hunter, and vice versa."
G.S.Kirk
https://youtu.be/GIW0-GGosXM