It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! 
"He [#Zeus] went to #Semele in Kadmos' palace. Then her mortal frame could not endure the tumult of the heavens; that gift of love consumed her. From her womb her baby, still not fully formed, was snatched, and sewn (could one believe the tale) inside his father's thigh, and so completed there his mother's time."
#Ovid, Metamorphoses
Birth of #Dionysos
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Have you missed our good friend, mother of Dionysus, and lover of Zeus, Semele (aka Smelly)???
Well, you're in luck, because we get an end to Smelly's story & more on Dionysus in this week's #podcast on the #mythology of the #constellation Corona Borealis (spoilers, it's basically not about a crown at all): https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/corona-borealis-myths-and-retconstellations/
:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semele#/media/File:Sebastiano_Ricci_-_Dionysus_(1695).jpg
Original Corona Australis myth: Zeus lusts after Semele (who may/may not be smelly), Hera finds out (SHOCKING!) and manipulates the situation so Semele dies (again, shocker)
Find out how we ret-con(stellation) this one here: https://starrytimepodcast.com/episodes
How would you retell this myth to make it more modern and/or less cringey?!
The cursed necklace of Harmonia is said to have given grief and suffering to everyone who owned it: #Harmonia herself was turned into a snake alongside her husband #Kadmos, her daughter #Semele was burnt by #Zeus' lightning when he kept his promise to come to her as he did to #Hera, and #Jocasta, unlucky mother and wife of #Oedipus, is said to have worn it too.
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