Dionysus

Bacchus was merciful, bacchus tries to tell the king of Thebes hey if you do not respect me I'm going to cause untold suffering upon you. Why would go against a God? Especially a God who shows you miracle after miracle? The King was too proud, too sane to see what was right in front of his eyes " He's with me. You're unholy. You can't see." The King is given every chance to repent from his bashing of the God. He is told by messengers and even the god himself, hey you shouldn't be doing this Bacchus is getting mad. He is told of all the miracles the Bachae have been going Honey shooting up from the ground, women living in woods and defeating solders with wands. If you see all of this and you're in a Greek play and you don't repent you have basically screwed yourself over. Basically the play goes to prove that you should never go against the gods. " Besides even if the God isn't a God, believe him. Live with us. Don't break tradition." is simply the best quote to describe what the King should have done, even if you don't think he is a God believe in him anyway to save thebes and your family.