Semele. Plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte

Semele. Plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenure, Paris, 1615. Engraving circa 1615, by Leonard Gaultier. Gaultier, or Galter, was a French engraver, born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641. Semele was, in Greek mythology, the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeusele asked Zeus to grant her a boon. Zeus, eager to please his beloved, promised on the River Styx to grant her anything she wanted. She asked Zeus to reveal himself, as proof of his divinity. Zeus tried to spare her by showing her the smallest of his bolts and the sparsest thunderstorm clouds he could find. however, cannot look upon the gods without incinerating, and she perished. Zeus rescued the fetal Dionysus

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