patrocluz:MYTHOLOGY MEME / (1/5) OTPs“And golden-haired Dionysos made blonde-haired Ariadne, t
patrocluz:MYTHOLOGY MEME / (1/5) OTPs“And golden-haired Dionysos made blonde-haired Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and [Zeus] the son of Kronos made her deathless and unageing for him." -Hesiod, Theogony 947 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) 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. The vase-painters of Athens often showed Athena leading Theseus from the sleeping Ariadne to his ship. Her wedding diadem was set in the heavens as the constellation Corona. In most accounts of the myth Ariadne is either slain or commits suicide, before being raised to immortality and joining Dionysus on Olympus. -- source link