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Who are you? When does one know himself? Should you be able to express what you are? What you want to do/become? How do you know that you know yourself? These are questions that Euripides touches on in the drama The Bacchae. The themes of getting to know yourself, why you take certain actions, and being aware with the environment around you are all key ideas that Euripides brings up in the struggle between Dionysus and Pentheus. Euripides shows that a man who is calm and comfortable in his environment is the man who knows himself rather than the man who is uneasy and rejects everything around him. This man, rather, is one who will never know who he truly is. To know yourself, you should be able to clear your mind and control your emotions. In the struggle between Dionysus and Pentheus, Dionysus urges Pentheus in opening his mind and changing his views about him. Pentheu