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zoognosisjoy.bsky.social
Fresco from Pompeii of Pentheus being torn apart by Maenads
June 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
vandroidhelsing.bsky.social
6. Pentheus and Agave
Ink illustration of Pentheus being torn bloodily apart by multiple dancing women
October 7, 2025 at 5:03 AM
skull-breaker.bsky.social
personally I'm thinking more about Pentheus' dismemberment by the Bacchaes, female worshipers of Dionysus
November 12, 2024 at 7:53 PM
hntdove.bsky.social
The joke I told about Pentheus just tore me up.
finchwrites.bsky.social Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · Jul 17
I had a joke about what happened after the death of Hector but it was a bit of a drag.
hntdove.bsky.social Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · Jul 17
I tried to come up with a joke about Tantalus, but I just couldn't reach it.
July 17, 2026 at 9:35 PM
zel204.bsky.social
Pentheus for @lyka-ios.bsky.social

#art #furry #furryart #commsopen
March 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
mrhenrymorris.substack.com
Pentheus goes to spy on the Maenads dressed as Kid Rock
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
catacalypto.bsky.social
my friends when I triple book Saturday 7 pm
the mural of Pentheus being torn apart from Pompeii
September 13, 2026 at 2:25 AM
archaeohawke.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday 👀

A few years ago in the #French city of Nimes some amazing floor mosaics were discovered that portray the #myth of Pentheus, the king of Thebes.
2nd century CE.

#Archaeology #History #Art #France   🇫🇷
The Pentheus Mosaic in Nîmes is a spectacular, 35 m² Roman mosaic dating to the 2nd century AD. Discovered in 2007 during excavations on Avenue Jean Jaurès, it depicts the mythological death of King Pentheus of Thebes. Its incredible state of conservation—often compared by specialists to the finest pieces found in Pompeii—makes it a major historical treasure. In Greek mythology, Pentheus was a king of Thebes. His father was Echion, the wisest of the Spartoi. His mother was Agave, the daughter of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, and grandson of the goddess Harmonia. His sister was Epeiros and his son was Menoeceus. Excavators found the nearly flawless floor in 2006–2007 during rescue digs prior to construction work on the Allées Jean-Jaurès.
June 29, 2026 at 7:48 AM
abracadocious.bsky.social
"Organized gangs of wine moms."
Roman fresco of Pentheus being attacked by a group of maenads
January 11, 2026 at 10:18 PM
glennkenny.bsky.social
Again, the biggest non-story ever. Scorsese in a public “cinema” would wind up like Pentheus at the end of “The Bacchae.” Stop trolling, please.
June 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
transgenderhistory.bsky.social
we used to know how to solve problems
Attic red figure vase of maenads (drunk worshippers of Dionysus) tearing Pentheus, King of Thebes, apart
August 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
daydreamwanderer.bsky.social
Charles Gleyre, “Pentheus Pursued by the Maenads,” 1864
#CharlesGleyre
#pentheus #maenads #menads #dionysus
#painting #artoftheday #artlovers #artwillsaveus #artonbluesky #artbots #artbymen #swissartist
#mystic #mythology #cult #bacchae #euripides
#madness
February 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
ewacat.bsky.social
If it's me, rip him to shreds like the Bacchae did to Pentheus
October 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
aristofontes.bsky.social
New Pentheus statement just dropped
amandabecker.bsky.social Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · Jan 13
Trump, during an "economic" speech today in Detroit, can't help but fixate on "wine mom gangs," saying they're "doing these fake riots." They go practice. They go to areas, they take hotel rooms, and they all practice together. It’s a whole scam. We’re finding out who’s funding all this stuff."
January 14, 2026 at 6:49 PM
thecaseface.bsky.social
we need to tear these people apart in a frenzy like the women of thebes did to pentheus.
just my thoughts
mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 6d
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 25, 2026 at 2:24 AM
kev2317.bsky.social
In the Pentheus myth they dismembered him and scattered him all over the mountain side. I believe in being thorough.
September 30, 2026 at 12:49 AM
nataliehaynes.bsky.social
Pentheus being torn by maenads. Roman fresco from the northern wall of the triclinium in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii.
March 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
partialhistorians.bsky.social
✨Pentheus being torn apart by maenads✨

Euripides ‘The Bacchae’ tells the unfortunate tale of Pentheus, the king of Thebes, who banned the worship of Dionysius. This provoked the wrath of the god and led to the women of Thebes breaking out into a Bachhic frenzy.
Fresco depicts five maenads in a frenzy. Two hold Pentheus. The maenad on the left grabs his hair and seems about to stab him with a small trident. The other grabs his arm to prevent him from defending himself. A third seems ready to smash a rock into his head from behind. The other two hold object and seem to be ready to get involved.
March 27, 2026 at 5:58 AM
pixelfish.bsky.social
side note: those identical but for the hair color young ladies are secretly Maenads and you, my dude, you are Pentheus.
September 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
brazenhead.bsky.social
Menoeceus, son of Pentheus:
probgobl.in Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · Jun 6
I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty.

My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.
June 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
flaviansophist.bsky.social
F in chat for Pentheus.
probgobl.in Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · Jun 6
I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty.

My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.
June 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
ecarney.bsky.social
Gonna tell my kids this was King Pentheus of Thebes.
December 29, 2024 at 12:56 AM
samosafuz.bsky.social
Hallucinating à la Pentheus!
May 29, 2026 at 10:32 PM
sentantiq.bsky.social
Serving up Pentheus on a nightly basis
Menu title from Restaurant agave
December 23, 2024 at 4:00 PM
mattitiahu.bsky.social
I had a joke about Pentheus but the critics tore it to pieces.
ngrotum.bsky.social Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · Oct 23
I had a joke about Aktaion, but it's gone to the dogs.
doccrom.bsky.social Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · Oct 23
I have a joke about Orpheus, but it needs some fine tuning.
October 23, 2024 at 9:31 PM