Bacchus

Roman name of the god of wine and ecstasy, son of Jupiter and Semele, identified with the Greek Dionysus and also called Liber. Ovid is the witness — the birth from the thigh of Jupiter, the pirates, the death of Pentheus, the hymn of his names, the nurse Ino punished by Juno, the golden touch of Midas; Virgil shows the Latin queen Amata feigning "the madness Bacchus loves" and Dido toasting "Bacchus, lord of mirth".