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She remained faithful to Dionysus, but was later killed by Perseus at Argos.

In other myths Ariadne hanged herself from a tree, like Erigone and the hanging Artemis, a Mesopotamian theme.

Some scholars think, due to her thread-spinning and winding associations, that she was a weaving goddess such as Arachne, and they support the assertion with the mytheme of the Hanged Nymph ( see weaving in mythology ).