h little effort.
             The Bacchae has a similar introduction, as Dionysus also opens the play proclaiming his divinity, "I have come to this land of Thebes as the son of Zeus. Dionysus is my name." (pg 205). He explains his wrath against the city of Thebes as they deny his divinity; "my mother's sisters, of all people, denied that I, Dionysus, was begotten from Zeus
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