God of wine. Strange Birth Only Olympian to be born from a mortal woman. Father was Zeus and the...

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Dionysus (Bacchus) God of wine

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Fearing Hera’s wrath, Hermes took Dionysus to a hidden valley and had the Maenads raise him. There he invented wine.

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Page 1: God of wine. Strange Birth Only Olympian to be born from a mortal woman. Father was Zeus and the mother was Semele. Hera tricked Semele into asking Zeus.

Dionysus (Bacchus)God of wine

Page 2: God of wine. Strange Birth Only Olympian to be born from a mortal woman. Father was Zeus and the mother was Semele. Hera tricked Semele into asking Zeus.

Strange BirthOnly Olympian to be born from a mortal

woman. Father was Zeus and the mother was Semele.Hera tricked Semele into asking Zeus to show

his true self to her. Upon seeing the god in his full splendor she

burnt to ashes. Zeus was able to save their unborn son and

sewed him into his leg. Which other god/goddess was born from Zeus?

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Fearing Hera’s wrath, Hermes took Dionysus to a hidden valley and had the Maenads raise him.

There he invented wine.

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Stolen by pirates Dionysus was found sleeping on a beach by a

band of pirates. The pirates thought that he was a high born

youth so they took him aboard thinking to ransom him.

He tried in vain to convince the pirates that he was a god but they didn’t listen.

Grape vines grew from the sea seizing the ship.

The pirates jumped from the boat and Dionysus turned them into Dolphins.

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