The House of Thebes
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Zeus stitching the unborn Dionysus into his own thigh while Hermes watches.

At the time of Semele's death she was pregnant with Zeus' son. Zeus saved the unborn baby from the flames and carried the child himself by stitching the fetus into his own thigh.
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