Dionysus

God of wine and ecstatic frenzy, son of Zeus and the mortal Semele — "a mortal woman an immortal son", says Hesiod. Apollodorus has Zeus sew the unborn child into his thigh after Semele is destroyed by his lightning; the Homeric Hymn shows him turning Tyrrhenian pirates into dolphins; the Iliad and Apollodorus record the punishment of Lycurgus and Pentheus for resisting him.