Ariadne Definition

Ariadne Sentence Examples

• One part of her religious being survives in that of the later Rhea, another in that of Aphrodite, one of whose epithets, Ariadne (= the exceeding holy), takes us back to the earliest Cnossian tradition.

• On the walls of the chief council chambers are a magnificent series of oil-paintings by Tintoretto and other less able Venetians - among them Tintoretto's masterpiece, "Bacchus and Ariadne," and his enormous picture of Paradise, the largest oil-painting in the world.

• When Theseus landed on the island to slay the Minotaur, Ariadne fell in love with him, and gave him a clue of thread to guide him through the mazes of the labyrinth.

• Theseus himself was said to have founded a festival at Athens in honour of Ariadne and Dionysus after his return from Crete.

• The story of Dionysus and Ariadne was a favourite subject for reliefs and wall-paintings.