Dionysiaca
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The Dionysiaca is an Ancient Greek epic poem by the 5th-century AD poet Nonnus. Totaling 48 books and 21,286 lines, it is the longest surviving poem from Greco-Roman antiquity. It focuses on the life
The triumph of Dionysus, depicted on a 2nd-century Roman sarcophagus. Dionysus rides in a chariot drawn by panthers; his procession includes elephants and other exotic animals.
Detail of papyrus codex showing Dionysiaca 15. 84–90 (P.Berol. inv. 10567, 6th or 7th century).
The battle of Zeus and Typhon. Side B from a Chalcidian black-figured hydria, c. 550 BC.
Jove and Semele (c. 1695) by Sebastiano Ricci
Semele
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In Greek mythology, Semele, or Thyone, was the youngest daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother of Dionysus by Zeus.
Dionysiaca
…them with their gifts, of which the necklace given to her by Aphrodite receives particular attention. They have four daughters (Autonoë, Agave, Ino and Semele) and a son (Polydorus). Cadmus gives Autonoe's hand to Aristaeus, well known as an inventor. They have a son, Actaeon, who becomes a passionate hunter…
Semele and Dionysus on a black-figure hydria, ca. 520-500 BC, Antikensammlung Berlin
Zeus, Semele und Hera. 17th century (Erasmus Quellinus II or Jan Erasmus Quellinus)
Rubens. Jupiter and Semele (Ovid, Metamorphoses, III, 259–309). Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium