Metamorphoses

How is Pentheus killed in Ovid's Metamorphoses?

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Pentheus goes out into the woods to find Acoetes after he somehow escapes from prison. While in the woods, Pentheus' family is bewitched into believing that he is a wild boar and they rip his body to shreds, just as Tiresias predicted they would.

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Metamorphoses