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
- co occurs with
- Great Pan, Oenopion, Staphylus, Thoas, Arachne, Nyx, Protogonos, Lyssa, Hecate, Hermes, Athena, Ariadne, Gaia, Apollo, Persephone, Phanes, Kronos, Titans, Zagreus, Chronos, Erebus, Ouranos, Chaos, Aether, Artemis (Diana), Diana, Chiron, Actaeon
- sibling of
- Leucothea
- syncretized with
- Dheghom
Mentioned by
- Hecate
- Hermes
- Athena
- Ariadne
- Gaia
- Apollo
- Persephone
- Phanes
- Kronos
- Titans
- Zagreus
- Chronos
- Erebus
- Ouranos
- Chaos
- Aether
and 7 more
Sources
wikipedia (6)
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