Dionysus's first love was Ampelos, a youth who treated animals and wild beasts with familiarity, like the god himself. Although Dionysus had warned him to stay way from bulls, Ampelos, wandering alone through the woods, was killed by a bull that gored him in the belly. The silenes wept over his body with Dionysus, who was ready to follow him to Hades. That death was to change the history of mankind. The gods decided, in fact, that Ampelos would become the grapevine. When the grapes born from the youth's body were ripe, Dionysus picked a bunch and squeezed them, observing the red colour staining his fingers. It was the element that was missing for life.