Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Dionysus and Ariadne: Marriage on Naxos (Olympian View)
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / Ariadne · Hesiodic marriage + Apollodorean / Pausanian Naxos epiphany (olympian bridal focus)
• The Minotaur and the Labyrinth: Ariadne’s Thread and Daedalus
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Ariadne’s love; thread; Theseus kills the Minotaur; escape from Daedalus’s Labyrinth)
• Ariadne on Naxos: Abandonment and Dionysus
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean main line (Theseus leaves Ariadne on Naxos/Dia; Dionysus takes her); alternate classical strands noted
• Aegeus’s Death: The Black Sails and Theseus’s Kingship
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (forgotten white sail; Aegeus leaps to his death; Theseus becomes king; Aegean Sea)

Places appearing with them

• Chios
• Coastal lookout
• Crete
• Cyprus
• Isthmus
• Naxos
• Oenone
• Olympia
• Sea off Attica
• Underworld

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Marriage
• Sacrifice
• War