At the base of the tragic myth in Euripides' Bacchae, there is a struggle for dominance between two powerful men. Pentheus and Dionysus engage in a fierce power struggle.
The god is involved in this with a dual punishing disposition. He wants to punish the daughters of Cadmus who slandered his mother. He wants to punish his cousin Pentheus who, as the ruler of Thebes, resists the introduction of Dionysian worship in Thebes.
As long as Pentheus refuses to be initiated into the new cult and does not read the "shown," the god is compelled to respond to the denial and demonstrate his terrifying power through "actions."
Pentheus succumbs to the temptation of the female Bacchic spectacle, supposedly to understand the incomprehensible aspects of ecstasy, to transform the gaze into "knowledge," in order to ensure the understanding of the other.
And thus he surrenders as a Bacchic sacrifice to the tearing apart, that is, in the way it deconstructs the one and multiplies its parts, which tears the body and distributes its limbs.
Agaue becomes the gaze that is provoked to give her eyes to the mirror for Pentheus to see the tearing and the distribution of...
