WHO IS ARIADNE?
Ariadne is the daughter of the Cretan king Minos and Pasiphae; and half-sister of the half-man, half-bull creature Minotaur. According to legend, the king of Athens, Aegeus, wants to make an agreement to stop the Cretan king Minos, who attacks them, and Minos stops the attack on the condition that the Athenians sacrifice seven virgin girls and seven young men to the Minotaur every nine years,who is an evil creature that harms everyone and imprisoned in a labyrinth which is almost impossible to get out of. Theseus, the son of Aegeus, volunteers to be one of the seven young men with the desire to kill the Minotaur. When the ship carrying Theseus and the other victims docks in Crete, a love affair begins between Theseus and Ariadne.
Ariadne gives Theseus a ball of thread allowing him to find his way after killing the Minotaur. Theseus takes Ariadne with him, but abandons her on the way back. Seeing Ariadne alone, Dionysus falls in love with her and makes her his wife. The most loyal of the Greek gods is Dionysus, with his great love for Ariadne.