Crossword-Solution: SEMELE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Semele | n. | A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SEMELE | anagram | ELEMES, MELEES |
We have 22 clues for the answer “SEMELE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BACCHUS, mother of | 1 answer |
| mother Dionysus | 1 answer |
| Whom Zeus destroyed by lightning. | 1 answer |
| Mother of Dionysus attendant | 1 answer |
| Mother of Dionysus | 1 answer |
| Mother of Dionysius. | 1 answer |
| Mother of Bacchus. | 1 answer |
| Mortal mother of Dionysus | 1 answer |
| Harmonia's daughter. | 1 answer |
| Goddess slain by the lightning of Zeus. | 1 answer |
| DIONYSUS, mother of | 1 answer |
| "Thunder-smitten" goddess. | 1 answer |
| "The thundersmitten." | 1 answer |
| Earth goddess | 8 answers |
| DIONYSUS EQUIVALENT | 10 answers |
| ANIMAL SACRED TO DIONYSUS | 10 answers |
| Dionysus mother | 10 answers |
| DIONYSUS PARENT | 10 answers |
| DIONYSUS EPITHET | 10 answers |
| BRIDE OF DIONYSUS ATTENDANT | 10 answers |
| ZEUS, wife of | 11 answers |
| daughter of Cadmus | 12 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with SEMELE (5)
Have we not seen, or by relation heard, In courts and regal chambers how thou lurk’st, In wood or grove, by mossy fountain-side, In valley or green meadow, to waylay Some beauty rare, Calisto, Clymene, Daphne, or Semele, Antiopa, Or Amymone, Syrinx, many more Too long—then lay’st thy scapes on names adored, Apollo, Neptune, Jupiter, or Pan, 190 Satyr, or Faun, or Silvan? But these haunts Delight not all.
Wouldst thou with tempests lye? Then bow To th' rougher furrows of her brow, Or make a thunder-bolt thy choyce? Then catch at her more fatal voyce; Or 'gender with the lightning? trye The subtler flashes of her eye: Poore SEMELE wel knew the same, Who both imbrac't her God and flame; And not alone in soule did burne, But in this love did ashes turne.
The example of maternal incontinence was copied by the king of Italy; and the three favorite concubines of Hugo were decorated with the classic names of Venus, Juno, and Semele.
Greek mythology tells us of the birth of Bacchus in the following manner: After Zeus burnt the house of Semele, daughter of Cadmus, he sent Hermes in great haste with directions to take from the burnt body of the mother the fruit of seven months.
They show him transformed into a bull, for Europa; into gold, for Danae; into a swan, for Leda; into a satyr, for Antiope; and into a thunder-bolt, for Semele.
Quotes with SEMELE (2)
from "Semele Recycled" But then your great voice rang out under the skiesmy name!-- and all those private namesfor the parts and places that had loved you best. And they stirred in their nest of hay and dung. The distraught old ladies chasing their lost altar, and the seers pursuing my skull, their lost employment, and the tumbling boys, who wanted the magic marbles, and the runaway groom, and the fisherman's thirteen children, set up such a clamor, with their cries of "Mirac…
O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter When he appear'd to hapless Semele; More lovely than the monarch of the sky In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms Excerpt From: Christopher Marlowe. “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1945–2021).