Ariadne
Role: daughter of Minos · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.1
🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Ariadne) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Ariadne) · Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (as Ariadne)
Life events
- Dionysus made Ariadne his wife and made her deathless and unageing.(Hesiod, Theogony 869-975)
- Dionysus carried Ariadne away after Theseus arrived with her at Naxos.(Apollodorus, Epitome 1 · 📍 Naxos)
- With: Dionysus
- “And by night he arrived with Ariadne and the children at Naxos . There Dionysus fell in love with Ariadne and carried her off;”
Apollodorus, Library 3.1
- parent: Minos “He begat sons, to wit, Catreus, Deucalion, Glaucus, and Androgeus: and daughters, to wit, Acalle, Xenodice, Ariadne, Phaedra;”
Hesiod, Theogony 869-975
- married with Dionysus “golden-haired Dionysus made brown-haired Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife”
Apollodorus, Epitome 1
- courtship with Theseus “Ariadne, daughter of Minos, being amorously disposed to him, offered to help him if he would agree to carry her away to Athens and have her to wife.”
- admirer: Dionysus “There Dionysus fell in love with Ariadne and carried her off”
- with Dionysus (interaction) “There Dionysus fell in love with Ariadne and carried her off”
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