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The Bacchantes is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon . In Bacchantes the god Dionysus arrives in Greece from Asia intending to introduce his orgiastic worship there . He is disguised as a charismatic young Asian holy man and is accompanied by his women votaries, who make up the play’s chorus. He expects to be accepted first in Thebes, but the Thebans reject his divinity and refuse to worship him, and the city’s young king, Pentheus, tries to arrest him . In the end Dionysus drives Pentheus insane and leads him to the mountains, where Pentheus’s own mother, Agave, and the women of Thebes in a bacchic frenzy tear him to pieces .