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Inferno999 wrote: Dionysus wasn't a demigod? What? So what, was he not a son of Semele, was Semele a goddess, what do you mean? I understand that thing of Otis and Ephialtes, but Dionysus not being a demigod?

He was sometimes a child of Zeus and Semele but other myths portrayed him as a child of Zeus and either Persephone or Demeter. In the eyes of the Greek he was as much a god as any other (remember that some claim Aphrodite was born out of Ouranos sperm and others claim she was the child of Zeus and Dione). I doubt any ancient Greek would have reduced him to the likes of Perseus or Achilles. In fact the word demigod or Hero was more often used for mortals with no relation to the gods who performed divine(= heroic) feats or just for minor, smaller gods. The idea that Zeus ordered Dionysus around and made him a camp leader would be incredibly offensive or outright insane to them.

All of  that is ignoring the similarities between Jesus and Dionysus who were considered valid until more modern scholars decided against it for some reason.