Prayer to Dionysus, Semele
Dionysus · Semele
Be favourable, O Insewn, Inspirer of frenzied women! We singers sing of you as we begin and as we end a strain, and none forgetting you may call holy song to mind. And so, farewell, Dionysos Insewn with your mother Semele whom men call Thyone.
Fons · Source
AuthorAnonymous (Homeric corpus)
WorkHomeric Hymns
Section1 (to Dionysus), closing
Periodarchaic Greek (7th-4th c. BC)
Occasionclosing of the Homeric Hymn to Dionysus — farewell to the god 'Insewn' (eiraphiotes) and his mother Semele-Thyone
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Culturegreek
Formhymn
DeitiesDionysus, Semele
Functionsinvocation · praise
Spherefertility · literary