Truer perhaps of figures in Greek myth. The story of Ariadne is soon told. Having helped Theseus to kill the Minotaur, progeny of Pasipha and the bull, she escaped from Crete with her lover as far as Naxos. Daidalos, homo faber, maker of the maze.
Echoes occur in art, literature, music.
Using other Latin sources which tell of Ariadne's second abandonment, Titian painted the wanderer Dionysos, the second Theseus, as a young god - not yet the bloated god of wine or leader of wild rites. Motifs are picked up and handed on, thread-like. Literature and opera have not always been kind to Ariadne. Her story became the plaything of poets in the nineteenth century, attractive to women in particular. And another link backwards is Elizabeth Barrett Browning, lighting on the Ariadne episodes from Nonnos.