This god pulls down the top branch of a tree to allow the crossdressing king Pentheus to climb it in one play. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this god whose followers are led by Agave in that play. Athenian playwrights wrote cycles consisting of three tragedies and a satyr play to be performed at a festival in honor of this Greek god of theater and wine.
ANSWER: Dionysus [or Bacchus; accept Dionysia; accept The Bacchae]
[10m] To avoid being mistaken for Heracles in this play, Dionysus trades clothes with his slave Xanthias before bringing Aeschylus back from the dead. Dionysus engages in a comedic debate with this play’s chanting chorus.
ANSWER: The Frogs [or Bátrakhoi; or Ranae] (by Aristophanes)
[10h] The “frog-swans” in The Frogs are cited as parodies of writers of these songs by scholars like Jean Defradas and Cécile Corbel-Morana. Proponents of “new music” like Cinesias and Philoxenus wrote these Dionysiac hymns.
ANSWER: dithyrambs [or dithyrambos; accept dithyrambic poets]
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