"even if this god does not exist, as you claim, let him be considered a god in your eyes. lie for a good cause, say that he is semele's child. in this way she might seem to have given birth to a god and honor might accrue to our entire family."\
This Bacchae by Euripides results the serious point that could have prohibited the torrent of tragedies that befall the house of Cadmus caused by Pentheus’s disrespect to Bacchus. In fact, Cadmus carries about the looming collapse of his house because both his sympathetic of the divine law as purely passing the Bacchic rites and his strategy to use the law as a source for aggrandizing his family honor fails to convince Pentheus of the legitimacy of Bacchus and the obligation of his rites.
