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Compare And Contrast Dionyysus And Zeus

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Dionysus is god of vine. Son of Zeus and Semele. Zeus is the king of the Olympus, god of lightning and thunder, king of all gods. Semele is a mortal woman, daughter of the founder and first king of Thebes. She mother dies from lightning, when Dionysus was still in her womb. Dionysus survived, because how can child of Zeus, child of king of Olympus die.Cadmus his grandfather, and Agave, his aunt, tell people that Semele’s child is not from Zeus, that she is pregnant from a mortal man, and that therefore Zeus killed Semele.
The story starts when Dionysus returns to Thebes from Asia. He wants to take a revenge from people who killed his mother. He wants people to worship him, to make him sacrifices. Pentheus, Dionysus’s cousin, believes that

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