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Ariadne

deity sky Greek corroborated · 18

Hyginus equated Libera with the Greek Ariadne. The older and newer forms of her names, cult, and rites, and their diverse associations, persisted well into the late Imperial era.

↻ synthesized from 18 sources

When

First attested
1400 BCE
Attested period
-1400 – 2020
Historical notes
Equated with Libera around the late Republican era.

Relationships

syncretized with
Libera, Aphrodite
co occurs with
Tithonus, Aristaeus, Europa, Asterius, Semele, Arachne, Orpheus, Ulysses, Neptune, Hebe, Aurora, Ganymede, Aquilon, Zéphyr, Dione, Harmonia, Cadmus, Ilat, Britomartis, Alpheus, Virbius, Anaïtis, Angelos, Aphaea, Aeginaea, Aetole, Agoraea, Despoinai, Agrotera, Alphaea, Amarynthia, Amphipyros, Apanchomene, Helene, Dentritis, Kondyleatis, Aricina, Asterion, Cassandra, bull-god, Minos, Ampelos, Calamos, child-Pan, Liber, Heracles, Psyche, Asclepius, Perse, Hermes, Athena, Aeneas, Ceres, Proserpina, Venus, Vulcan, Apollo, Diana, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Jupiter, Pluto, Juno, Flora, Cupid, Artemis (Diana), Zeus, Ares, Ishtar, Hephaestus, Persephone, Tammuz, Helios, Hera, Pallas, Silenus, satyr, Pan, Thetis, Peleus, genius loci, Victory, Hercules
allied with
Theseus, Dionysus, Eros, Daedalus
parent of
Oenopion, Staphylus, Thoas, Peparethus, Eurymedon, Phliasus, Ceramus, Maron, Euanthes, Latramys, Tauropolis, Staphylos, Phlias
consort of
Dionysus, Theseus, Bacchus, Dionysos
enemy of
Artemis, Theseus
manifests as
Corona Borealis
child of
Pasiphaë, Crete, Minos
sibling of
Acacallis, Androgeus, Deucalion, Glaucus, Xenodice, Catreus, Minotaur, Phaedra
has aspect
Ariadne Aphrodite

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Mentioned by

and 39 more

Sources

wikipedia (16)
  1. Proserpina
  2. List of deified people in Greek mythology
  3. Ariadne
  4. L'incoronazione di Poppea
  5. Le Réveil de Flore
  6. Epithets of Artemis
  7. The Goddess Girls
  8. The Troy Game
  9. Ariadne (Greuze painting)
  10. Ariadne (poem)
  11. Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus
  12. Ariane (Massenet)
  13. Bacchus and Ariadne
  14. Catullus 64
  15. Sarcophagus of the Triumph of Bacchus (Lyon)
  16. Sleeping Ariadne
encyclopedia (2)
  1. Aphrodite (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  2. Ariadne (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“At around the same time, Hyginus equated Libera with the Greek Ariadne. The older and newer forms of her names, cult, and rites, and their diverse associations, persisted well into the late Imperial era.”

#13060 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Heracles, Asclepius and Aristaeus, others through marriage to gods, example: Ariadne, Tithonus and Psyche, and some by luck or pure chance example: Glaucus.”

#26243 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Ariadneia (ἀριάδνεια) festivals honored Ariadne and were held in Naxos and Cyprus. According to Plutarch, some Naxians believed there were two Ariadnes, one of which died on the island of Naxos after being abandoned by Theseus.”

#27731 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“These works, L'Orfeo and L'Arianna, deal respectively with the Greek myths of Orpheus and Ariadne.”

#38053 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The chariot of Bacchus and Ariadne is accompanied by bacchantes, satyrs, fauns, sylvans, and others.”

#38141 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001