- Bacchus

Identified with Dionysos, Bacchus is the god of wine and giver of ecstasy. Son of Zeus & Semele, he is also the god of fruitfulness, and vegetation, worshipped in orgiastic rites and known as the bestower of euphoria and god of drama.

Juno, wife and sister of Zeus, was so jealous by the fact that Semele was pregnant by her unfaithful husband that she tried to trick her. Taking the appearance of Beroe, Semele's nurse, she advised Semele to ask Zeus to appear with all his power. As soon as Zeus turned up with his thunderbolts Semele died instantly. Upset by this misfortune, Zeus saved the foetus (the future Bacchus) by hiding it in his thigh. There he kept it until the birth. Becoming older, Bacchus went to several countries including India and Egypt where he taught the cultivation of wine. He is usually represented as joyful with fair hair holding his pinecone. In the painting you can see:

Ariadne, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, who gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth. But she fell pregnant and was deserted by him. Bacchus consoled her and they married. They had many children including Ceranus, Thoas, Enopion, Tauropolis and others.
The Satyrs are one of a class of Sylvan deities who are living in forests, represented as goatlike men who drink and dance in Bacchus' entourage, and chase the nymphs. They often play music, especially drums and the flute.
The Bacchantes are women participants in the orgiastic rites of Bacchus. Definitely votaries of these rites, they are drunk most of the time, laughing, screaming, teasing men and the like.