STC415844 Pentheus Persecutes Bacchus\' Disciples or Penteo Trattiene I suoi da Seguire Bacco, Book III, illustration from Ovid\'s Metamorphoses, Florence, 1832 (hand-coloured engraving) by Ademollo, Luigi (1764-1849); Private Collection; (add.info.: P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon Libri XV cum Appositis Italico Carmine* Interpretationibus ac Notis, 5 Vols (Florence, 1824, repr. 1832); Book III; Bacchus: God of wine and Intoxication. He is the son of Jove and Semele, and he comes to term in Jove\'s thigh, after Semele is killed. Worship of him inspires frenzy in groups of revelers, but many also disputed his claims to divinity. ); The Stapleton Collection; Italian, out of copyright.