Monologue

Cadmus Monologue from The Bacchae

From The Bacchae by Euripides

male · anguished · 1:01 min

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On, with your awful burden. Follow me, Thralls, to his house, whose body grievously With many a weary search at last in dim Kithaeron's glens I found, torn limb from limb, And through the interweaving forest weed Scattered.--Men told me of my daughters' deed, When I was just returned within these walls, With grey Teiresias, from the Bacchanals. And back I hied me to the hills again To seek my murdered son. There saw I plain Actaeon's mother, ranging where he died, Autonoe; and Ino by her side, Wandering ghastly in the pine-copses. Agave was not there. The rumour is She cometh fleet-foot hither.--Ah! 'Tis true; A sight I scarce can bend mine eyes unto.

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Cadmus mourns the loss of his son, reflecting on the tragic events that have unfolded due to the madness induced by Dionysus, while searching for the remains of his son in the wilderness.

60 and up · sadness · death · family · madness · betrayal

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