In one of his most macabre works, Euripides masterfully dramatizes the way someone eliminates their opponent using the techniques of manipulation, strategic intelligence, and insidious, perverse attacks: defamation, destabilization, traps, distortion of reality, and any behavior that today constitutes moral harassment.

Dionysus is also the god of "perverse inversion," where the perception of reality is distorted, making lies appear as truth and truth as lies, the perpetrator as the victim and the victim as the perpetrator.

The interpretation presented here sees the Bacchae as part of the long tradition of manipulation that concerns personal, social, and political life. The Bacchae convey a message against the malign influence of those cunning, corrupt, and psychopathic individuals who deceive and direct others to where it benefits themselves, dragging them into ruin.

Euripides warns about the unintended complicity with corruption, stemming from carelessness, inexperience, and emotionalism. His "lesson" is to think rightly now, review this, and learn more clearly. Otherwise, there will be great pain.