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1. 1. Le Baccanti

   

   A god of wine and ecstatic rites returns to his native city to punish those who refuse to acknowledge his divinity, sowing chaos as his frenzied followers abandon ordinary life for rites on the mountainside. The young, stubborn ruler who rejects the new cult is drawn into a fatal trap: disguised and goaded into spying on the worshippers, he is torn apart in a bacchic orgy of violence led by women of the city, among them his own mother, who in the aftermath realizes with horror what she has done. The drama explores the collision between rational authority and primal, religious madness, and the catastrophic consequences of human pride and impiety.