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Dionysus, Ariadne Louvre G41

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Bacchus and Ariadne, Erasmus Quellinus II

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Ariadne sleeping while Theseus leaves her alone on Naxos. But Dionysus soon will replace Theseus, as can be seen by his Leopards. 1898 J. W. Waterhouse

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1) Minotaur, the son of the white Bull and Pasiphae, attacks and kills Cretans (In the Medieval time the Minotaur is represented as a Centaur while the ancient Greeks showed him as a man with the head of a bull). 2) The Minotaur is captured with the help of Poseidon. 3) The ship with Theseus arrives. Interesting the ship carries 7 shields with the symbols representing the Medici. 4) Theseus meets Ariadne and her sister Phaedra. 5) Ariadne gives a ball of thread to Theseus (who is dressed like a knight) to be able to return from the Labyrinth 6). Theseus goes to the Labyrinth 7) He kills inside the Labyrinth the Minotaur, Ariadne and her sister are waiting in front of the Labyrinth 8) Theseus with Ariadne and her sister leave Crete. 9) Their ship with the black sail (Theseus too happy has forgotten to replace it by a white sail) leaves Crete.

See also the story of Pasiphae

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Ariadne, Venus and Bacchus, Tintoretto 1576, Sala di Anticollegio, Palazzo Ducale, Venice

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Bacchus and Ariadne, Titian

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The Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne, Sebastiano Ricci

Bacchus and Ariadne, Sebastiano Ricci

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Ariadne on Naxos, George Frederick Watts

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Bacchus Discovering the Sleeping Ariadne on Naxos. Angelica Kauffmann

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Ariadne on Naxos , John Vanderlyn

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Ariadne on Naxos, Lovis Corinth

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Bacchus and Ariadne, Guido Reni

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Der Triumph der Ariadne (Triumph of Ariadne), Detail of a painting by Hans Makart , 1874 , Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (Austria)

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Sleeping Ariadne, Rome

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Ariadne riding a panther, Sculpture, Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Bacchus and Ariadne, Titian

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