Dionysus and Ariadne.

    After helping Theseus to kill the Minotaur, Ariadne, daughter of the Cretan king, Minos, and his wife Pasiphaë, sailed from Crete with Theseus. Upon reaching the island of Naxos, Theseus abandoned (or some say forgot) Ariadne and sailed homeward. On Naxos she was discovered, rescued, and wed by Dionysus (Bacchus), to whom she bore many children.
    As part of the wedding ceremony, Dionysus crowned Ariadne with a wreath; later (some say upon her death) he threw the crown into the sky, where it became the constellation Corona Borealis. According to Hesiod, Ariadne was made immortal by Zeus because of her marriage to a god. However, Apollodorus suggests that Dionysus kidnapped Ariadne, but did not marry her.
    The subject has been very popular in the postclassical period, particularly in the visual arts. Representations center on Dionysus’s discovery of Ariadne and especially their wedding ceremony, commonly depicted as a bacchanal.