Dionysus/Bacchus

Dionysus (or Dionysos, or Bacchus to the Romans) was the Greek god of wine and theatre and the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy. Although a late arrival in Greek mythology (possibly from Anatolia or even North Africa), he was nevertheless a major figure and one of the twelve Olympians. He was the son of Zeus and Semele, the mortal daughter of King Cadmus of Thebes, although in other versions of the myth he was a son of Zeus and Persephone. Before his birth, Zeus' jealous wife Hera persuaded Semele to make Zeus show himself in all his glory, knowing that this would kill her, but Zeus rescued the foetal Dionysus by sewing him into his own thigh and later 'giving birth' to him as a handsome fully grown youth. After many years wandering in the east, he returned to Greece to establish his own cult, with its frenzied Bacchic rites.