Actaeon was hunting on Mount Cithaeron when he stumbled upon Artemis bathing. Transformed into a stag as punishment, he was torn apart by his own hounds on the mountain's slopes.
Mount Cithaeron was the site where Agave, possessed by Dionysiac frenzy, tore apart her son Pentheus during the events of Euripides' Bacchae.
Mount Cithaeron loomed over Antigone's family history — it was where infant Oedipus was exposed, where Pentheus was torn apart, and near where her brothers fought their fatal duel outside Thebes.
Antiope gave birth to her twin sons Amphion and Zethus on Mount Cithaeron after fleeing Thebes. The mountain's shepherds raised the abandoned infants.
Mount Cithaeron was sacred to Dionysus and served as the primary site of his worship near Thebes. In Euripides' Bacchae, the god leads the women of Thebes to celebrate his rites on the mountain's slopes.
Mount Cithaeron was where Jocasta and Laius ordered their infant son exposed to prevent the Delphic prophecy. The shepherd's failure to kill the child there ensured the prophecy's fulfillment.
Laius ordered a shepherd to expose the infant Oedipus on Mount Cithaeron with his ankles pinned, hoping to prevent the Delphic prophecy. The shepherd's mercy ensured the oracle's fulfillment.
The Maenads performed their ecstatic rites on Mount Cithaeron, the wild mountain outside Thebes. In Euripides' Bacchae, the mountain becomes the site of both divine worship and Pentheus's dismemberment.
The infant Oedipus was exposed on Mount Cithaeron with his ankles pinned together, giving him his name meaning 'swollen foot.' A shepherd found him there and brought him to Corinth.
Pentheus climbed a pine tree on Mount Cithaeron to spy on the Bacchic rites. The maenads, led by his mother Agave, discovered him and tore him apart on the mountainside in Euripides' Bacchae.
Mount Cithaeron loomed over Thebes as a site of pivotal mythological events — the exposure of infant Oedipus, the death of Pentheus at the hands of maenads, and the hunting grounds of Actaeon.
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