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Mythology: Dionysus And Semele - Paper

Mythology: Dionysus And Semele

Semele was the daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, king and queen of Thebes,
and the mother of Dionysus, god of wine. Zeus fell madly in love with her and
made an oath to do anything that she asked. Hera, the jealous wife of
Zeus,realized Zeus was in love with Semele and tricked Semele into asking Zeus
to let her see him in his majesty. Bound by an oath, Zeus appeared before the
unfortunate woman in all his divine glory. (Morford-Lenardon 187) As she looked
at him, she was consumed by the lightening bolts and light that radiated from
him. Zeus was able to rescue her unborn child, Dionysus, and hid him in his side
until it was ready to be born.

Hermes carried Dionysus to be cared for by the ...

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to imprison the visitors, but he had no idea that Dionysus was a new
god.

The soldiers tried to imprison the maidens but said that the doors
unbarred themselves. Pentheus was furious. He ordered his soldiers to imprison
Dionysus but the prison could not hold him. Dionysis tried to show that the
wonders of this new worship of a new and great god was divine but when Pentheus
only heaped insults and threats upon him, Dionysus left him to his
doom.(Hamilton 71)

When Pentheus went to pursue the maidens that had escaped his prison,
many Theban women joined him, and that is when Dionysis made them mad and they
thought Pentheus was a wild beast and tore him apart.That is when Pentheus
realized that he had fought with a god and must now pay with his life.

Some time during his wanderings, Dionysus came upon the princess of
Crete, Ariadne, when she was utterly desolate, having been abandoned on the
shore of the island of Naxos by the Athenian prince, Theseus, whose life she ...

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Added: 12/3/2005 11:02:25 AM
Category: Miscellaneous
Type: Free Paper
Words: 565
Pages: 3

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