The Etruscans, who paired Ariadne with Dionysus, never with Theseus, offered an alternative Etruscan view of the Minotaur, never seen in Greek arts: on an Etruscan red-figure wine-cup of the early-to-mid fourth century Pasiphaë tenderly cradles an infant Minotaur on her knee.

The detective novelist Ariadne Oliver is Agatha Christie's humorous self-caricature.

The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

Daedalus is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne.

Minos himself is said to have died at Camicus in Sicily, whither he had gone in pursuit of Daedalus, who had given Ariadne the clue by which she guided Theseus through the labyrinth.

In this cult Artemis is hanged from a tree, just like Ariadne in Greek mythology, who was hanged from a tree when she was abandoned by Theseus.

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He has no sons to succeed him and the Albanian-born Anastasius, palace official ( silentiarius ) and favoured friend of empress Ariadne, is elevated to the throne.

* Empress Ariadne, wife of Anastasius I, dies at Constantinople and is buried in the Church of the Holy Apostles.

* In Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne ( 1523 ), the god's chariot is borne by cheetahs ( which were used as hunting animals in Renaissance Italy ).

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

The Naxos portion of the Ariadne myth is also told in the Richard Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos.

In mid-late 466, Zeno married Ariadne, elder daughter of Leo I and Verina ; as there is no reference to a divorce with Arcadia, she should have died in those years.

Ariadne, the Greek goddess of fertility, is similar to Clotho in that she carries a ball of thread, much like Clotho ’ s spindle.

Just to the northwest of there, off the modern road, is where Evans chose to have Villa Ariadne built as his home away from home and an administrative center.

In Greek mythology, Phaedra ( Greek-Fedra ) is the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, sister of Ariadne, wife of Theseus and the mother of Demophon of Athens and Acamas.

* " Ariadne auf Naxos " is a poem by Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg.

* " Ariadne " is a story by Anton Chekhov.

* " Klage der Ariadne " is a poem by Friedrich Nietzsche.

* The HMS Ariadne is the name of a ship in Alistair MacLean's 1986 novel Santorini.

* Ariadne is an important character in Sara Douglass's historical fantasy series The Troy Game, published by HarperCollins 2002-2006.

* " Ariadne " is the protagonist of Montreal writer Tess Fragoulis's 2001 novel, Ariadne's Dream.

This continued until Theseus killed the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne, Minos ' daughter.

Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a skein of thread, literally the " clew ", or " clue ", so he could find his way out again.

In Crete, both Minos ' daughters, Ariadne and Phaedra fell madly in love with Theseus.

On the way home, Theseus abandoned Ariadne on the island of Naxos, and continued with Phaedra, his future wife.

The Minotaur was defeated by the hero Theseus with the help of Minos ' daughter Ariadne.

Similar cults of resurrected gods appear in the Orient in the cults of Attis, Adonis and Osiris, In Minoan Crete, the " divine child " was related with the female vegetation divinity Ariadne who died every year.

The Minoan vegetation goddess Ariadne was closely connected with the cult of the divine child, and with the " cult of the tree ".

Dionysos greeting Ariadne with her sacred serpent, in the sacred grove for their marriage, symbolized by the winged cherub with a nuptial torch, in the presence of his foster-father, Silenus

On his arrival in Crete, Ariadne, King Minos ' daughter, fell in love with Theseus and, on the advice of Daedalus, gave him a ball of thread.

That night, Ariadne escorted Theseus to the Labyrinth, and Theseus promised that if he returned from the Labyrinth he would take Ariadne with him.

After decapitating the beast, Theseus used the string to escape the Labyrinth and managed to escape with all of the young Athenians and Ariadne as well as her younger sister Phaedra.

Many of them were absorbed by more powerful divinities, and some like the vegetation goddesses Ariadne and Helen survived in Greek folklore together with the cult of the " divine child ", who was probably the precursor of Dionysos.

Some regular features disappeared over the years: the Grimbledon Down comic strip about a research establishment run by the hapless Treem ; Ariadne, later with Nature, commenting every week on the lighter side of science and technology and the plausible but impractical humorous inventions of ( fictitious ) inventor Daedalus, often developed by the ( fictitious ) DREADCO corporation.

Dionysus ( god of wine, festivities, and the primal energy of life ) who was the protector of the island, met Ariadne and fell in love with her.

He later wrote libretti for several of his operas, including Elektra ( 1909 ), Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ) with Harry von Kessler, Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912, rev.

Despite this success, Zeno continued to be unpopular with the people and Senate because of his barbarian origins ; his right to the throne was limited to his marriage with Ariadne and his relationship to Verina, the dowager Empress.

Theseus, returning, overcome with grief, left money for sacrifices to Ariadne and ordered two cult images, one of silver and one of bronze, set up.

Dionysus later saw Ariadne crying out for Theseus and took pity on her and married her.

Other sources ( e. g. Plutarch, Theseus 20 ) credit Rhadamanthys rather than Dionysus as the husband of Ariadne, and the father of Oenopion, Staphylus and Thoas.

In this account, Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, Rhadamanthys ' brother ; another Ariadne was the daughter of Minos ' grandson and namesake, who features in the Theseus legend, and was rescued by Dionysus.

Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian: Dionysus discovers Ariadne on the shore of Naxos ( island ) | Naxos.

In Hesiod and most other accounts, Theseus abandoned Ariadne sleeping on Naxos, and Dionysus rediscovered and wedded her.

In a few versions of the myth, Dionysus appeared to Theseus as they sailed away from Crete, saying that he had chosen Ariadne as his wife, and demanded that Theseus leave her on Naxos for him ; this has the effect of absolving the Athenian culture-hero of desertion.

In this song, Dionysus reflects on his marriage to Ariadne.

Athenians of the Classical age were aware that the festival was of great antiquity ; Walter Burkert points out that the mythic reflection of this is the Attic founder-king Theseus ' release of Ariadne to Dionysus, but this is no longer considered a dependable sign that the festival had been celebrated in the Minoan period.

Walter Burkert points out that the mythic reflection of this is the Attic founder-king Theseus ' release of Ariadne to Dionysus

In Greek mythology, Oenopion ( Ancient Greek:, Oinopion, English translation: " wine drinker ", " wine-faced "), son of hero Theseus or god Dionysus and princess Ariadne, was a legendary king of Chios, which was assigned to him by Rhadamanthys, and was said to have brought winemaking to the island.

According to the epitome of the Bibliotheke traditionally attributed to Apollodorus ( Epitome I: 9 ), when Dionysus found Ariadne abandoned on Naxos, he brought her to Lemnos and there fathered Thoas, Staphylus, Oenopion, and Peparethus.

Recovered were a marble bust probably of Ariadne, two large-scale bronzes, a herm figure of a turbaned Dionysus, inscribed with the name of its maker, Boëthos of Chalcedon, and a lithe, winged olive-wreathed boy, identified by scholars as Agon or Eros Enagonios, Eros as lord of contests, a bronze bust of Ariadne, and two bronze statuettes of dancing dwarfs.

Ariadne, the wife of the god Dionysus in Minoan Crete, possessed the spun thread that led Theseus to the center of the labyrinth and safely out again.

Ariadne bewails her abandonment by Theseus and Dionysus weds her.

Perseus is incited by Hera to attack the Bacchantes and turns Ariadne into stone after which the Argives accept the rites of Dionysus at Hermes ' demand.

Ariadne appears to Dionysus in a dream and complains that he has forgotten her.

In the triumphal form of procession, Ariadne sometimes rides with Dionysus as his consort.

Ariadne being discovered by Dionysus | Dionysos on the island of Naxos Island | Naxos, where she was abandoned by Theseus after helping him kill the Minotaur.