When Agave triumphantly returns to the city, even the Chorus expresses pity for her. Cadmus comes out to see what has happened, and then he talks Agave back to her senses, helping her face what she has done. Cadmus explains that Dionysus has punished them all, because they did not recognize him as a god.
Agave and Cadmus complain to Dionysus that his punishment.....
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