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Dionysus was a Greek god who was mostly known for as a God of Wine. Past images and descriptions of Dionysus depicted him as an adult male with a beard and long hair. He wore a robe and holds a fennel staff with pine-cone on top. His parents are Zeus, god of thunder, and his mother is a princess mortal, Semele of Thebes. Before Dionysus was born, his mother was killed by Zeus’s thunderbolts. According to the article on website, Theoi, Semele was tricked into seeing Zeus in his true form by the jealous goddess Hera. Mortals would die after seeing the gods or goddesses true form and because of Zeus’s oath to fulling Semele’s wish he had no choice to show her knowing she will die after. When Semele died from the lightening, “Zeus recovered

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