Tags: Mythological Figure.
In Greek mythology Autonoë (/ɔːˈtɒnoʊ.i/; Ancient Greek: Αὐτονόη) was a daughter of Cadmus founder of Thebes Greece and the goddess Harmonia. She was the wife of Aristaeus and mother of Actaeon and possibly Macris. In Euripides’ play The Bacchae she and her sisters were driven into a bacchic frenzy by the god Dionysus (her nephew) when Pentheus the king of Thebes refused to allow his worship in the city.