Translations of original texts on her here ...
Good outline here ...
Plutarch, in his vita of Theseus, which treats him as a historical individual, reports that in the Naxos of his day, an earthly Ariadne was separate from a celestial one:
- "Some of the Naxians also have a story of their own, that there were two Minoses and two Ariadnes, one of whom, they say, was married to Dionysos in Naxos and bore him Staphylos and his brother, and the other, of a later time, having been carried off by Theseus and then abandoned by him, came to Naxos, accompanied by a nurse named Korkyne, whose tomb they show; and that this Ariadne also died there."
It is wonderful to see Ariadne featured here. Thanks for the outlines!
ReplyDeleteYour link to Plutarch shows that he wrote Parallel Lives --perhaps a way to integrate the roman and greek character. Parallel lives could be considered a form of dualism and another possible explanation for the twining of Ariadne. Plutarch was a platonist according to the wiki link and also influenced by the Periapetetic School (the greek lecturer Peripatis was a walker, meanderer, roamer). What would the tour of the chamber be if the frescos were jumbled?