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====Resurrection / rebirth==== In the version of the story apparently told by Callimachus and Euphorion, the cauldron containing the boiled pieces of Dionysus, is given to Apollo for burial, who placed it beside his tripod at Delphi.<ref>West 1983, p. 151; Linforth, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008294699;view=1up;seq=337 pp. 311–312]; [[Euphorion of Chalcis|Euphorion]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euphorion_chalcis-poetic_fragments/2010/pb_LCL508.227.xml fr. 14 Lightfoot] [= fr. 13 Powell = fr. 12 Scheidweiler = [[Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]], ''Alexandra'' 207 (Scheer, [https://archive.org/details/lycophronisalexa02lycouoft/page/98 p. 98 lines 5–10]) = Orphic fr. 36 Bernabé (I pp. 52–53) = [https://archive.org/details/orphicorumfragme00orphuoft/page/230/mode/2up fr. 210 pp. 230–231 Kern]]; cf. [[Callimachus]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/callimachus-fragments_uncertain_location/2022/pb_LCL550.205.xml fr. 643 Clayman] [= [https://archive.org/details/callimachus0001call/page/430/mode/2up fr. 643 Pfeiffer]].</ref> And according to [[Philodemus]], citing Euphorion, the pieces of Dionysus were "reassembled by [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]], and brought back to life",<ref>[[Euphorion of Chalcis|Euphorion]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euphorion_chalcis-poetic_fragments/2010/pb_LCL508.271.xml fr. 40 Lightfoot] [= fr. 36 Powell = [[Philodemus]], ''On Piety'' 192–193 = Orphic fr. 59 I (I pp. 66–67) Bernabé = [https://archive.org/stream/orphicorumfragme00orphuoft#page/110/mode/2up Orphic fr. 36 Kern]]; similarly, see Orphic fr. 59 II (I p. 67) Bernabé. For a discussion of this Philodemus text, see Henrichs, pp. 62–65. Compare with [[Lucius Annaeus Cornutus|Cornutus]], ''Theologiae Graecae Compendium'' [https://www.archive.org/stream/cornvtitheologi00corngoog?ref=ol#page/n88/mode/2up 30 p. 62, 11 Lang] [= Orphic fr. 59 IV (I pp. 67–68) Bernabé], which also has Rhea revive Dionysus (see Meisner, p. 254; Linforth, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008294699;view=1up;seq=341 p. 315]).</ref> while according to Diodorus Siculus, the reassembly and resurrection of Dionysus was accomplished by Demeter.<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3E*.html 3.62.6]. With respect to this account, Graf and Johnston, p. 76, state that Demeter "was often equated with Rhea from the fifth century onwards, including in Orphic contexts"; for this equation in Orphic texts, see West 1983, pp. 72–74, 81–82, 93, 217.</ref> Later Orphic sources have Apollo receive Dionysus' remains from Zeus, rather than the Titans, and it was Apollo who reassembled Dionysus, rather than Rhea or Demeter.<ref>West 1983, p. 152; Linforth, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008294699;view=1up;seq=341 p. 315]; Orphic frr. [https://archive.org/stream/orphicorumfragme00orphuoft#page/110/mode/2up 34, 35], [https://archive.org/stream/orphicorumfragme00orphuoft#page/226/mode/2up 209–211] Kern.</ref> In the accounts of Clement, and Firmicus Maternus cited above, as well as [[Proclus]],<ref>[[Proclus]], ''Hymn to Athena'' [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sallust_On_the_Gods_and_the_World/The_Hymns_of_Proclus#To_MINERVA. 13–24]; ''In Plato Timaeus'' 35a (Taylor 1820b, [https://archive.org/stream/proclusontimaeus02procuoft#page/36/mode/2up pp. 37–38]) [= Orphic [https://archive.org/stream/orphicorumfragme00orphuoft#page/228/mode/2up fr. 210 Kern]].</ref> and a scholium on [[Lycophron]] 355,<ref>Linforth, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008294699;view=1up;seq=337 p. 311]; [[Tzetzes]], Scholiast on [[Lycophron]] ''Alexandra'' [https://archive.org/stream/lycophronisalexa02lycouoft#page/136/mode/2up 355 p. 137 Scheer].</ref> Athena manages to save the heart of Dionysus, from which, according to Clement and the scholium, Athena received the name Pallas from the still beating (''πάλλειν'') heart. In Proclus' account Athena takes the heart to Zeus, and Dionysus is born again from Semele. According to the ''[[Fabulae]]'' of [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]] (the Roman equivalent of Zeus) "ground up his heart, put it in a potion, and gave it to Semele to drink", and she became pregnant with Dionysus.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 167.</ref>
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