<P> Semele was worshipped at Athens at the Lenaia, when a yearling bull, emblematic of Dionysus, was sacrificed to her . One - ninth was burnt on the altar in the Hellenic way; the rest was torn and eaten raw by the votaries . </P> <P> Semele was a tragedy by Aeschylus; it has been lost, save a few lines quoted by other writers, and a papyrus fragment from Oxyrhynchus, P. Oxy. 2164 . </P> <P> Semele is attested with the Etruscan name form Semla, depicted on the back of a bronze mirror from the fourth century BCE . </P> <P> In ancient Rome, a grove (lucus) near Ostia, situated between the Aventine Hill and the mouth of the Tiber River, was dedicated to a goddess named Stimula . W.H. Roscher includes the name Stimula among the indigitamenta, the lists of Roman deities maintained by priests to assure that the correct divinity was invoked in public rituals . In his poem on the Roman calendar, Ovid (d . 17 CE) identifies this goddess with Semele: </P>

Who is semele and how does she die