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Semele
Semele (; "Semelē"), in Greek mythology, was the youngest daughter of the Phoenician hero Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths.
Certain elements of the cult of Dionysus and Semele came from the Phrygians. These were modified, expanded and elaborated by the Ionian Greek invaders and colonists. Herodotus, who gives the account of Cadmus, estimates that Semele lived sixteen hundred years before his time, or around 2000 BCE. In Rome, the goddess
Semele (disambiguation)
Semele is the mother of Dionysus in Greek mythology.
Semele may also refer to:
- "Semele" (Eccles), an opera by John Eccles
- "Semele" (Handel), an opera by George Frideric Handel (given as an oratorio in its first run)
- "Sémélé", an opera by Marin Marais
- 86 Semele, an asteroid
- "Semele" (plant), a genus of flowering plants
- "Semele" (bivalve