Hesiod dionysus hades12/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() While at sea, the crew tried to tie him up, but the bonds fell away of their own accord. He asked some Tyrrhenian (Etruscan) pirates for a ride and the pirates agreed, but they actually planned to kidnap him, believing that he was the son of a wealthy family who would pay a hefty ransom for their child. When Dionysus was still a young boy, he found himself in need of passage to the island of Naxos. After several mishaps, Ino jumped into the sea, where she became the goddess, Leucothea. Ino and her husband, Athamas, raised Dionysus as a girl to try to hide him from Hera’s wrath, but Hera was not fooled and caused Ino to go mad. Hermes spirited the boy away to live with his aunt, Ino (one of his mother’s sisters). When he was ready to be born, Dionysus was delivered from his father’s thigh, which explains Dionysus’ epithet, Twice-Born. Hermes rescued the unborn baby from Semele’s womb and the child was sewn into Zeus’ thigh where he stayed for the rest of the pregnancy. So, Semele was struck by Zeus’ lightning and died in a blaze. Unfortunately, it seems that Zeus showed himself to Hera in the form of a lightning bolt. Semele did so and Zeus was forced to comply. When Hera learned that Semele was pregnant with her husband’s child, she disguised herself as Semele’s nurse and convinced the girl she should demand that Zeus show himself to her as he did to his wife, but first she should make him swear to meet any demand she might make. ![]() Symbols: thyrsus (staff carried by maenads), maenads/bacchae/bacchants (female followers), vines, satyrs, wine, drinking cup, bull, panther, snakesĭionysus was the son of Zeus and the mortal woman Semele, who was the daughter of Cadmus, King of Thebes. Roman name: Bacchus, Liber Pater (Free Father)Įpithets: Twice-Born, Bromios (Thunderer) ![]()
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