Teiresias, an aged Theban prophet.
A Soldier of Pentheus' Guard.
Two Messengers.
A Chorus of Inspired Damsels, following Dionysus from the East.
"The play was first produced after the death of Euripides by his son, who bore the same name, together with the 'Iphigenîa in Aulis' and the 'Alcmaeon,' probably in the year 405 B.C."
THE BACCHAE
The background represents the front of the Castle of Pentheus, King of Thebes. At one side is visible the sacred Tomb of Semelê, a little enclosure overgrown with wild vines, with a cleft in the rocky floor of it from which there issues at times steam or smoke. The God Dionysus is discovered alone.