The Bacchae

How does the author use foreshadowing in The Bacchae?

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Pentheus's fate is foreshadowed in the first scene when the old seer, Tiresias, warns Pentheus not to offend the gods, or he will suffer the same fate as Actaeon "whom the carnivorous hounds he reared tore apart when he boasted that he was better at hunting than [the goddess] Artemis."

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The Bacchae