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What Is More Powerful Than A Mother’s Love? Dionysus is, indeed, a very powerful god. He can manipulate anything and control anyone and any situation. He controls all of the women and makes them do unthinkable things. He manipulates the king to walk right into his own downfall. Dionysus does all of this to prove his own power and to bring glory to himself. However, can Dionysus overpower a mother? Dionysus made mothers leave their newborn children. The text says, “These were the ones who had just given birth,/ and their breasts were swollen, their babies left behind.” (701-702) If a woman is still breastfeeding, then she would have given birth very recently. No new mother, in her right mind, would leave her child. These women were depriving their child of food and nurture. Also during this time the father was not very involved in childcare, so the women were leaving their children with no one to properly care for them. This shows how strong Dionysus’s manipulative power truly i...