Prayer to Dionysus, Semele
Dionysus · Semele
I sing of Dionysos, the son of glorious Semele... Hail, child of fair-faced Semele! He who forgets you can in no wise order sweet song.
Fons · Source
AuthorAnonymous (Homeric corpus)
WorkHomeric Hymns
Section7 (to Dionysus), opening and closing
Periodarchaic Greek (7th-4th c. BC)
OccasionHomeric Hymn 7 to Dionysus — narrative hymn telling of Dionysus's encounter with the Tyrrhenian pirates
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Culturegreek
Formhymn
DeitiesDionysus, Semele
Functionsinvocation · praise
Sphereliterary