Pentheus

Pentheus was the king of Thebes who opposed the worship of the god Dionysus. Dionysus, disguised as a holy man, arrived in Thebes to spread his cult. When Pentheus attempted to arrest Dionysus, the god drove him to the mountains in a frenzy. There, Pentheus was tragically torn apart by his own mother, Agave, and other women in a Dionysian rite. Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy, was the son of Zeus and Semele, a princess of Thebes. His cult involved ecstatic rituals, and resistance to his worship, as seen in Pentheus's case, often led to severe consequences.12