Stimula (mythology)
Stimula or Simila was an Italian deity. Later she was identified with Semele . Ovid mentions the Grove of the Stimula near the mouth of the Tiber , where the wandering Ino met Ausonian maenads with her son Melikertes . Hera instigated the maenads to attack Ino, but when they called for help, Heracles appeared nearby and drove the maenads away.
In Titus Livius' report on the Bacchanalia scandal , the Simila grove appears as a place of nocturnal orgies.
literature
- Ernst Marbach : Stimula . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III A, 2, Stuttgart 1929, Sp. 2534.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ovid Fasti 6,503-515
- ↑ Livy ab urbe condita 39.12