Agave

Mortal Theban princess, youngest daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia (greek_harmonia, whose notes name 'Agave'). Wife of the Spartos Echion and mother of King Pentheus, whom she tore apart on Cithaeron in the Dionysiac frenzy of Euripides's Bacchae. Authored as mortal, matching the existing sister greek_autonoe and the canonical mortal Theban line.

Parentage

• Harmonia

Domains

• Dionysiac frenzy
• Theban royalty

Powers

• Leads the maenads in the rending of Pentheus

Epithets

• Ἀγαυὴ Κάδμου θυγάτηρ

Relations

• sibling: Autonoe
• sibling: Ino
• sibling: Semele
• sibling: Polydorus of Thebes

Sources

• Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.4.2; Pausanias 9.5.2-3; Hesiod, Theogony 975-978
• Euripides, Bacchae 1043-1300; Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.5.2; Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.701-733