He gave the golden touch to Midas, and is often identified riding a leopard and carrying his staff, the Thyrsus.
In one story, sailors attempted to sell this god into slavery, but he unleashed a bear on their ship and turned those sailors into dolphins. One myth sees this one of this god's sons blind Orion, that son being Oenopion. He gave the golden touch to Midas, and is often identified riding a leopard and carrying his staff, the Thyrsus. His mother died after looking at Zeus' full glory, causing Zeus to sew this god's fetus into his thigh, and in a more famous myth, he makes the women of Thebes go into frenzy, and drives Agave to rip apart her son Pentheus. For 10 points, name this son of Semele, the Greek god of wine and ecstasy.
In one story, sailors attempted to sell this god into slavery, but he unleashed a bear on their ship and turned those sailors into dolphins.
{Dionysus}