Editing Ariadne (section)

=== Naxos ===
[[File:Ariadne_abandoned_on_Naxos_House_of_the_Greek_Epigrams_Pompeii_Plate_IX_by_Geremia_Discanno_02.jpg|thumb|A Greek Epigrams Pompeii Plate by Geremia Discanno depicting Ariadne abandoned on the island Naxos]]
In [[Hesiod]] and in most other versions, [[Theseus]] abandoned Ariadne sleeping on [[Naxos, Greece|Naxos]], and [[Dionysus]] rediscovered and wedded her. In a few versions of the myth,<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], 4.61 and 5.51; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 1.20, § 2, 9.40, § 2, and 10.29, § 2.</ref> [[Dionysus]] appeared to [[Theseus]] as they sailed from [[Crete]], saying that he had chosen Ariadne as his wife and demanding that Theseus leave her on [[Naxos (island)|Naxos]] for him; this had the effect of absolving the Athenian cultural hero of desertion.<ref name="penelope.uchicago.edu"/> The vase painters of [[Athens]] often depicted [[Athena]] leading Theseus from the sleeping Ariadne to his ship.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

Ariadne bore [[Dionysus]] famous children, including Oenopion, Staphylus, and [[Thoas (king of Lemnos)|Thoas]]. Dionysus set her wedding [[diadem]] in the heavens as the constellation [[Corona Borealis]]. Ariadne was faithful to Dionysus. In one version of her myth, [[Perseus]] killed her at [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] by turning her to stone with the head of [[Medusa]] during Perseus' war with Dionysus.<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'', 47.665</ref> The ''[[Odyssey]]'' relates that Theseus took Ariadne away from Crete only for [[Artemis]] to kill her in Dia (usually identified with Naxos) on Dionysus' witness.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' 11.321–25</ref> An ancient scholiast wrote that Ariadne and Theseus had sex on a sacred grove, and an angry Dionysus revealed that to Artemis, who proceeded to punish Ariadne with death.<ref>Scholia on the ''Odyssey'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=bys-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA507 11.325]</ref>

According to [[Plutarch]], one version of the myth tells that Ariadne hanged herself after being abandoned by Theseus.<ref>Plutarch, ''Theseus'', 20.1</ref> Dionysus then went to Hades, and brought her and his mother [[Semele]] to [[Mount Olympus]], where they were deified.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ariadne |first1= greekmythology.com |title= greekmythology.com |url= https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Ariadne/ariadne.html#:~:text=Ariadne%20was%20the%20daughter%20of,of%20Theseus%20and%20the%20Minotaur. |website=greekmythology.com}}</ref>

Some scholars have posited, because of Ariadne's associations with thread-spinning and winding, that she was a [[Weaving (mythology)|weaving goddess]],<ref>
{{cite book
 |last1                = Berg
 |first1               = Nicole M.
 |year                 = 2020
 |chapter              = Inserting Sources in ''Spartacus''
 |title                = Discovering Kubrick's Symbolism: The Secrets of the Films
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=U3D0DwAAQBAJ
 |publication-place    = Jefferson, North Carolina
 |publisher            = McFarland
 |page                 = 207
 |isbn                 = 9781476680491
 |access-date          = 12 February 2023
|quote                = In the movie, Bacchus himself is reclining in the arms of Ariadne (the weaving goddess) [...].
}} 
</ref>
like [[Arachne]], and support this theory with the [[mytheme]] of the Hanged Nymph<ref>
{{cite book
 |editor-last1         = Wedeck
 |editor-first1        = Harry E. |editor-link=Harry E. Wedeck
 |translator-last1     = Elton
 |translator-first1    = C. A.
 |translator-link1     = Charles Abraham Elton
 |year                 = 1963
 |chapter              = Tibullus
 |title                = Classics of Roman Literature
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=nHivCwAAQBAJ
 |publication-place    = Lanham, Maryland
 |publisher            = Rowman & Littlefield
 |pages                 = 121–122
 |isbn                 = 9781442233812
 |access-date          = 12 February 2023
|quote                = <br>Know, father Bacchus hates the mournful lay.<br>So thou, O Cretan maid! didst once deplore<br>A perjured tongue, left lonely on the shore,<br>As skill'd Catullus tells, who paints in song<br>The ingrate Theseus, Ariadne's wrong.<br>Take warning, Youths! oh blest! whoe'er shall know<br>The art to profit by another's woe.<br>Let not the hanging nymph's embrace deceive,<br>Nor protestations of base tongues believe [...].
}} 
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Compare an alternative translation of the equivalent passage from  Tibullus' Sixth Elegy by [[Theodore Chickering Williams]]:
<br><br>
  "Delightful Bacchus at his mystery
<br>    Forbids these words of woe.
<br>
<br>  Once, by the wave, lone Ariadne pale,
 <br>   Abandoned of false Theseus, weeping stood:—
<br>  Our wise Catullus tells the doleful tale
<br>    Of love's ingratitude.
<br>
<br>  Take warning friends! How fortunate is he,
<br>    Who learns of others' loss his own to shun!
<br>  Trust not caressing arms and sighs, nor be
<br>    By flatteries undone!"
<br><br>
([https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9610/pg9610-images.html The Elegies of Tibullus])
</ref><ref>
{{cite book
 |last1                = Larson
 |first1               = Jennifer Lynn
 |year                 = 1995
 |chapter              = The Wrongful Death of the Heroine
 |title                = Greek Heroine Cults
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=fasGIzLTlBEC
 |series               = Wisconsin studies in classics
 |publication-place    = Madison
 |publisher            = University of Wisconsin Press
 |page                 = 141
 |isbn                 = 9780299143701
 |access-date          = 12 February 2023
|quote                = The motif of the hanged goddess or heroine is quite widespread. [...] the thread running through most of these stories is that they involve heroines who die a wrongful death. The same [[Etiology|aetion]] is used all over the Greek world to explain hanging or swinging rituals. Hanging is a particularly feminine form of death in the Greek mind [...].
}} 
</ref>
(see [[weaving (mythology)|weaving in mythology]]).{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}