How Did Life Before Selene Become An Immortal Goddess

Dionysus, son of Zues and Semele and Apollo, son of Zues and Leto, both were born under strange conditions. Dionysus was born from the thigh of Zues after being fully grown, and Apollo's mother, Leto, was in labor for nine days with him because Hera did not want him to be born and would not give Leto a safe place for the child to be

powerful influence over humans, her first explanation for herself is that she is a vampire. This

She became queen of the underworld after being abducted by Hades. Dionysus, was a fertility god, and god of the vine. He freed the emotions and inspired joy in men. From him we get the tragic theater. He was also known as Baccus, god of drukenness.

In the story of Dionysus or Bacchus, Hera kills Semele because of Zeus. Seeing that "Zeus [is] madly in love with [Semele] and [tells] her that anything she [asks] him he [will] do" (Hamilton,65), Hera tricks Semele. She puts the desire to see Zeus ,in all his glory, inside of Semele's heart. After asking such favor to Zeus, Semele

Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo and the daughter of Zeus and Leto. Her mother gave birth to her on the island of Ortygia and after she was born she immediately helped her mom give birth to her twin brother and with that“...becoming the protector of childbirth and labour.” (Megas, 1997-2017)

Artemis' mother Leto was hounded throughout her pregnancy by the jealous goddess Hera but eventually found refuge on the floating island of Delos. There she gave birth to Artemis who assisted her mother as midwife with the birth of her younger twin-brother Apollon.<>

Dionysus was the son of the god Zeus and the mortal woman Semele, and because of this he is the only god with a mortal parent. The story tells that Zeus went to Semele in the night, unnoticed by human eyes, but his divine presence could be felt. Feeling this presence herself, Semele was pleased to be the lover of a god. Word soon got around about this ‘Affair’ and Hera (the goddess wife of Zeus) quickly came to a conclusion as to who was responsible. Hera went to Semele in disguise and convinced her she should see her lover as he really was, not knowing of Hera’s intentions, Semele agreed with her. When Zeus visited her again, she made him promise to grant her one wish. She went so far as to make him swear on the River Styx that he would grant her request. Zeus was madly in love and agreed. She then asked him to show her his true form. Zeus was unhappy knowing what was about to happen, but bound by his promise, he had no choice. He appeared in his

However, Semele is only a mortal, and not a Goddess. Dionysus is from Mount Olympus and lived journeying around the world, as a nomad. One interesting fact about Dionysus is he had to undergo two painful deaths before he was able to be considered a God. The Greek God Dionysus is the most important God of their time, because his rebirth after death symbolizes that he became who he is through his trials and tribulations of life, which people can relate too.

Athena’s origins as Zeus’ daughter is its own fascinating tale, and she is also responsible for the success of many heroes, both mortal and immortal, but has also placed curses upon humans as punishment for their wrongdoings or insults towards her. Athena is the goddess of wisdom, war, and purity, and yet her miraculous birth is one of the most controversial topics about her. She is Zeus’ favorite daughter, and is technically descendant from him alone. There are many interpretations of the specifics of her birth, but the most agreed upon and commonly repeated idea in myth is that she was generated by Zeus himself.

The Theogony of Hesiod discusses about anything. It discusses about the “birth of gods/goddesses.” The work of Hesiod presents how gods were created and the consolidation of the powers of gods as a fight that occur between sons and fathers as well as between female birth and male counterparts. In the Theogony, Hesiod demonstrates very clear biasness for the winner of the struggle of fathers and sons, for instance male sky-god Zeus while at the same time showing biasness of males against women (Caldwell, 1987). The distortion or slanting of other sections of the stories is done by Hesiod mainly to make the powers of male and Zeus of the brute force to appear very good while at the same time making other powers of female concentrated much on

Artemis is the daughter of Zeus, king of the gods, and Leto, daughter of the titans Coeus and Phoebe. When Leto was pregnant, Hera forbid any place to offer shelter to the woman who had seduced her husband. Zeus felt sorry for Leto so he decided to transform her into a quail to easily give birth to their children. They soon found an island by the name of Delos, that was willing to accept them. For nine days and nights, Leto suffered intense labor pains, until the tenth day when she finally gave birth to Artemis. Artemis then aided her mother in bringing her twin brother Apollo, god of the sun and music, into the world.

His mother Semele, who was a mortal woman, was the daughter of Cadmus of Thebes. Zeus fell in love with Semele and became human to seduce Semele. When Hera, Zeus wife, find out of the affair between Zeus and Semele she because furious and her raging jealousy made her transformed into an older woman who pretended to be Semele’s nurse. After she gained Semele’s trust, she planted doubt in Semele about Zeus and his true form. This seed of doubt and curiousness made Semele asked Zeus to grant her a wish.

“She took a vow to remain a virgin, refusing to give into the callings of Poseidon and Apollo; once,she was almost raped by Priapus, a lesser god of fertility, but was saved thanks to a braying of a mule”.She was not that worshipped publicly and which is evident by some of the lack of temples and shrines attributed to her or this comes in contrast to the Roman equivalent goddess Vesta and who represented public hearth cause she kinda needed to be worshipped because she was a god. She is the goddess of the Olympian generation and she is also the daughter of Cronus and Rhea and sister to Poseidon, Hades,

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.Greek myth is comprised of many Gods and Goddesses and the stories of how they came to be and of their life stories. And this is the story of the God apollo One God that caught my eye was Apollo, was associated with many aspects of life in the time of the Greek gods. Apollo’s father was Zeus, the king of the gods. Zeus, though married to Hera, had some problems with fidelity. He impregnated Leto, the daughter of a Titan.When he was four days old, he asked Hephaestus to make him silver bows and arrows. Hephaestus created them for him. Apollo was

The next referenced Greek myth we come across is that of Semele and Zeus on page 84. Semele was a mortal princess who was one of many seduced by the god Zeus. She became pregnant and would give birth to the god Dionysus. Semele reaches a tragic end when she is killed by Zeus’s wife/sister Hera. Zeus however is able to save the baby Dionysus. Once Dionysus grows up, he ventures to the underworld to save his mother and arranges for her to live on Mt. Olympus with the Gods (Morford et al. 2013). Aschenbach refers to Semele and Zeus when he is reflecting on the beauty and spirituality he experiences when he looks at Tadzio (Mann 2004 pp. 84). He looks at