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Semele
Sign in to saveIn Greek mythology, Semele (; ), or Thyone (; ), was the youngest daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother of Dionysus by Zeus (her own great-grandfather).
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Greek
- Deity.name
- Semele
- Deity.deity_of
- Princess of ThebesGoddess of the Bacchic frenzy
- Deity.image
- Simos Group - ABV 364 54 - chariot race - Dionysos mounting chariot - Berlin AS F 1904 cropped.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Semele and Dionysus on a black-figure hydria, ca. 520-500 BC, Antikensammlung Berlin
- Deity.abode
- Thebes, Mount Olympus
- Deity.consort
- Zeus
- Deity.parents
- Cadmus and Harmonia
- Deity.siblings
- Autonoë, Agave, Ino and Polydorus
- Deity.children
- Dionysus
- Deity.member_of
- the Theban Royal Family
- Deity.other_names
- Thyone
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15 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Mythology
- Seduction by Zeus and birth of Dionysus
- Impregnation by Zeus
- Locations
- In Etruscan culture
- In Roman culture
- In the classical tradition
- Genealogy
- Astronomical bodies named after her
- Music named after her
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
In Greek mythology, Semele (; ), or Thyone (; ), was the youngest daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother of Dionysus by Zeus (her own great-grandfather).
Certain elements of the cult of Dionysus and Semele came from the Phrygians. These were modified, expanded, and elaborated by the Ionian Greek colonists. Doric Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC), born in the city of Halicarnassus under the Achaemenid Empire, who gives the account of Cadmus, estimates that Semele lived either 1,000 or 1,600 years prior to his visit to Tyre in 450 BC at the end of the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC) or around 2050 or 1450 BC. In Rome, the goddess Stimula was identified as Semele.