Thyone

[ thahy-oh-nee, thahy-uh- ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. Semele, as named by her son Dionysus when he took her from the underworld to Olympus.

Example Sentences

As well as being home to the unique cotoneaster flower, it is also a habitat for two rare sub-species of butterfly only found on the Great Orme - the Grayling Thyone and the silver-studded blue.

From BBC

Bacchus, when made a god, raised her to heaven under the name of Thyone.

From Project Gutenberg

Vampyressa pusilla thyone Thomas, 1909 Specimens.—Boaco:

From Project Gutenberg

Dionysus, having established his worship in various parts of the world, descended to the realm of shades in search of his ill-fated mother, whom he conducted to Olympus, where, under the name of Thyone, she was admitted into the assembly of the immortal gods.

From Project Gutenberg

Dionusos-Orpheus descended to the Shades to recover the lost Virgin of the Zodiac, to bring back his mother to the sky as Thyone; or what has the same meaning, to consummate his eventful marriage with Persephone, thereby securing, like the nuptials of his father with Semele or Danaë, the perpetuity of Nature.

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