The Mysterious Case of Ariadne: The Minoan Princess Who Disappeared | Ancient Greek Mythology

Описание: What happened to Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, after helping Theseus to escape the Labyrinth of the Minotaur and leaving Crete?
The accounts of ancient authors tell different stories – sometimes she dies, sometimes she gets married to Dionysos, sometimes she gets turned into a Goddess or even a constellation of stars. We will explore several versions in this video together to get a clearer picture of Ariadne's mysterious case. I hope you enjoy it!

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I am Laura, a PhD student of Comparative Literature in Germany researching hermeneutics and aesthetics. I make videos on Gothic Literature, the origins of modern fantasy and sci-fi stories and literary theory.

Sources

Music by Epidemic Sound:
Narrow Escape by Dream Cave: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/B...
Unforeseen by Clarence Reed: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/p...

Pictures and videos taken myself show the following:
Marble two-sided herm with notches for inserting false arms. Represented is youthful Dionysos, wreathed with ivy and wearing a mitre, together with Ariadne.
(Museum of the Archaeological Site of Eleutherna)
Marble Head and Torso of a Minotaur (second half of 1st century AD) Vatican, Museo Pio Clementino 461((Museum of the Archaeological Site of Eleutherna)
Several videos of Knossos Palace

Quotes:
Homer, Odyssey 11. 320 ff
Hesiod, Theogony 947 ff
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library Epitome E1.8-1.10
Hyginus, Fabula 43; 224
Diodorus Siculus V 51.3-4
Pausanias, Description of Greece, I.20.3; X.29.4
Ovid, Fasti 3. 459 ff
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 47. 265 ff and 48. 530 ff
Plutarch, Life of Theseus 20.1

Paintings:

heseus Abandoning Ariadne on a Red-Figure Vase (5th century BCE)
Pompeian frescoes depicting Ariadne and Dionysos (1st century BCE to 1st century CE)
Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne (1522-1523)
Jacopo Tintoretto, Bacchus, Venus, and Ariadne (1576-1577)
Annibale Carracci, The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne (1597-1602)
Angelica Kauffman,Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus (1774)
John William Waterhouse, The Lament of Ariadne (1888) (Thumbnail Picture)

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