Semele

Thyone

Mother of Dionysus. Killed by Zeus when he grants her request and appears to her as a god. Raised from the dead by Dionysus.

Genealogy

Harmonia

Cadmus

Agave, Autonoe, Illyrius, Ino, Polydorus

Dionysus

Places
  1. Hades
  2. Mount Olympus
  3. Unknown
Events
  1. Zeus has sex with Semele and agrees to grant her any favour
  2. Hera tricks Semele into asking Zeus to manifest to her as he appears to Hera
  3. Zeus kills Semele with a thunderbolt
  4. Zeus sews Dionysus into his thigh to gestate
  5. Actaeon woos Semele
  6. Dionysus fetches Semele from Hades
  7. Dionysus and Semele go to heaven
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 4.2
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 4.3
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 4.4
  4. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.3
  5. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 14, Section 312
  6. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 31.2
  7. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 37.5
  8. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 19.3
  9. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 24.3
  10. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 2.3
  11. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 5.2
  12. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 12.3
  13. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 12.4
  14. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 16.6
  15. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 16.7
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