Semele

deity earth classical mythology single tradition · 6

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #1224 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 6 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Mentioned in Nonnus' Dionysiaca.

Relationships

parent of
Dionysus, Iacchus
consort of
Jupiter, Zeus
enemy of
Apate, Hera, Juno
sibling of
Leucothea
syncretized with
Dheghom

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Sources

Source passages

“The theme of Jupiter and Semele has also been interpreted by the painters Jacopo Tintoretto (ca. 1545) and Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Colleville (ca. 1760).”

#20065 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“a Theban princess who bore him the god of wine, Dionysus.”

#27642 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat

“Dionysus then went to Hades, and brought her and his mother Semele to Mount Olympus, where they were deified.”

#27718 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“in the other Zeus has impregnated the mortal woman Semele, resulting in Dionysus's literal rebirth.”

#36708 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“his offense was that he was a rival of Zeus for Semele, his mother's sister, whereas in Euripides' Bacchae he has boasted that he is a better hunter than Artemis”

#42225 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001