Semele the daughter of Cadmus and the mother of Dionysus.
Mysteries the Eleusian Mysteries, the secret religious rites celebrated at the ancient Greek city of Eleusis in honor of Demeter and Persephone.
Eleusis town in Greece, northwest of Athens; site of an ancient Greek city (also called Eleusis), seat of the Eleusian Mysteries.
Bacchus another name for Dionysus, the god of wine and revelry.
Ismenus a river of Thebes.
Castalia spring on Mount Parnassus, Greece; in ancient times it was sacred to the Muses and was considered a source of poetic inspiration to all who bathed in it.
Nysa a mountain on Euboa, an island that lies off the Attic and Boeotian coastlines.
