Semele

(Σεμέλη) - A beautiful Theban princess, daughter of King Cadmus, who was passionately loved by Zeus. Hera discovered the affair and, disguised as an old nurse, tricked Semele into demanding that Zeus reveal himself in his full, unmitigated divine glory. Bound by an unbreakable oath, Zeus appeared with his lightning bolts, and the intense heat instantly consumed Semele. Zeus rescued her unborn child, Dionysus, by sewing him into his own thigh until birth, later rescuing Semele from the Underworld to become the immortal goddess Thyone.