. 671 sequence killed by the hero. Thereupon Dio-medes, a relative of Thersites, threw the bodyof Penthesilea into the river Scamander ; but,according to other accounts, Achilles himselfburied it on the banks of the Xanthus. ( Lyc. 997 ; Amazones.) Pentheus (Uevdevs), son of Echion andAgave, the daughter of Cadmus. He suc-ceeded Cadmus as king of Thebes; and havingresisted the introduction of the worship ofDionysus into his kingdom, he was driven madbj the god, his palace was hurled to the ground,and he himself was torn to pi
. 671 sequence killed by the hero. Thereupon Dio-medes, a relative of Thersites, threw the bodyof Penthesilea into the river Scamander ; but,according to other accounts, Achilles himselfburied it on the banks of the Xanthus. ( Lyc. 997 ; Amazones.) Pentheus (Uevdevs), son of Echion andAgave, the daughter of Cadmus. He suc-ceeded Cadmus as king of Thebes; and havingresisted the introduction of the worship ofDionysus into his kingdom, he was driven madbj the god, his palace was hurled to the ground,and he himself was torn to pieces by his ownmother and her two sisters, Ino and Autonoe,who in their Bacchic frenzy believed him tobe a wild beast. The place where Pentheussuffered death is said to have been Mt. Cithae-ron or Mt. Parnassus. It is related that Pentheusgot upon a tree, for the purpose of witnessingin secret the revelry of the Bacchic women,but on being discovered by them was torn to pieces. (Eur. Bacckae; Ov. Met. iii. 513;Apollod. iii. 5, 2; Hyg. Fab. 184: Norm. The dying Penthesilea supported by Achilles. (From a sarcophagus found at now in Paris. association of five cities, was applied specificallyto the five chief cities of Cyrenalca in , Cyrene, Berenice, Arsinoe, Ptolemais,and Apollonia, from which, under the Ptole-mies, CyrenaTca received the name of Penta-polis, or Pentapolis Libyae, or, in the Romanwriters, Pentapolitana Regio. [Cyrenaica.]When the name occurs alone, this is its usualmeaning; the other applications of it are rare. I Penteleum (TlevreKttoi), a fortified place in 1the N. of Arcadia near Pheneus (Plut. , Arat. 39). PenteHcus Mons (t6 nfureKtKbv ijpos: Pen-1teli), a mountain in Attica, celebrated for itsmarble, which derived its name from the demusof Pentele (rifeTfAr)), lying on its S. slope. It \is a branch of Mt. Parries, from which it runsin a direction between Athens and Mara-thon to the coast. It was also called Briless
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