Ariadne

Family: Crete · Role: daughter of Minos and ally of Theseus · First appears: Theseus

Life events

Theseus escaped the labyrinth, slew the Minotaur, and took Ariadne and the Athenian captives.(Theseus · 📍 Crete)
- With: Theseus
- “When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient historians as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread given him by Ariadne, who had fallen in love with him, and being instructed by her how to use it so as to conduct him through the windings of the labyrinth, he escaped out of it and slew the Minotaur, and sailed back, taking along with him Ariadne and the young Athenian captives.”
Theseus abducted Ariadne, Antiope, Anaxo, and Helen.(Comparison of Romulus with Theseus)
- With: Theseus Antiope Anaxo Helen
- “for he stole Ariadne, Antiope, Anaxo the Troezenian, at last Helen, when he was an old man, and she not marriageable;”

admired: Theseus “having a clue of thread given him by Ariadne, who had fallen in love with him”
child: Oenopion “Others say Ariadne had sons also by Theseus, Oenopion and Staphylus”
child: Staphylus “Others say Ariadne had sons also by Theseus, Oenopion and Staphylus”
courtship with Theseus “having a clue of thread given him by Ariadne, who had fallen in love with him”
with Theseus (interaction) “he made a league with her, and received the captives of her, and ratified a perpetual friendship between the Athenians and the Cretans”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.