Greek mythology
Autonoe
Maenad daughter of Cadmus, swept into Bacchic frenzy
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Group
- Maenads
- Appears in
- Orpheus and Eurydice · Dionysus
Autonoe is a daughter of Cadmus who, with her sisters, denies the godhood of Dionysus. In punishment she is driven into ecstatic madness upon the mountain as a Maenad. There she joins the frenzied rite that tears her nephew Pentheus apart.
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