Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Birth of Dionysus: Semele, the Thunderbolt, and Zeus’s Thigh
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean / tragic (common classical Semele–thigh birth; Euripidean background)
• Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (26)
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXVI — Nysean nurses; ivy and woodland rearing

Places appearing with them

• Nysa
• The deep
• Thebes
• Zeus’s thigh

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• War