In Greek mythology, Semele, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths. (In another version of his mythic origin, he'd two mothers, Persephone and Semele.) The name "Semele", like other elements of Dionysiac cult (for example, thyrsus and dithyramb),'s manifestly not Greek but apparently Thraco-Phrygian; the myth of Semele's father Cadmus gives him a Phoenician origin. Herodotus, who gives the account of Cadmus, estimates that Seme… (More on Semele)