"Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter When he appear’d to hapless Semele;"
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Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, sc. 13
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Semele
Semele (Ancient Greek: Σεμέλη Semelê), or Thyone (Θυώνη Thyônê) in Greek mythology, was the youngest daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths.
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