In Greek Mythology: Ino was the daughter of the Theban King
Cadmus, and his wife Harmonia. She also had several sisters,
namely: Semele, Agave and Autonoe. Ino married, as his second
wife, Athamas, who was the King of Orchomenus.  Athamas' two
sons of his previous marriage persecuted her. Later she had two
sons with Athamas: Learchus and Melicertes. She then decided to
bring up the baby Dionysus, one of Zeus' and Semele's children,
because Semele had been burnt up by Zeus' thunderbolt. Ino and
Athamas disguised Dionysus as a girl so that Hera would not find
out (she was jealous of Zeus' illegitimate children). Hera did
find out and therefore decided to punish Ino and her husband by
driving them mad.  In her madness, Ino thought that her own son,
Learchus, was a deer, and consequently hunted and killed him.
She then put her other son, Melicertes, into a cauldron of
boiling water and jumped into the sea, holding it, killing both
herself and him.  A dolphin carried the body of Melicertes to
the shore, where it w