Semele

This elegant opera of the baroque period dramatizes the Greek myth of Semele and her unhappy affair with the god, Zeus. Being a potent god, Zeus always made love to Semele in the form of a human being and never in the ...

Dionysus, also spelled Dionysos, also called Bacchus or (in Rome) Liber, in Greco-Roman religion, a nature god of fruitfulness and vegetation, especially known as a god of wine and ecstasy. Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Semele, a daughter of Cadmus ...

Semele, also called Thyone, in Greek mythology, a daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, at Thebes, and mother of Dionysus (Bacchus) by Zeus. Semele's liaison with Zeus enraged Zeus's wife, Hera, who, disguised as an old nurse, coaxed Semele into asking ...

Since time immemorial, cultures have kept a list of personas that look beneficently upon wine. They are the ones who grew, produced this enticing elixir. In Greece we have Dionysus, the god of vegetation, ecstasy and wine. He is the son of ...

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