Ariadne1.0097_Kauffmann

Ariadne1.0097_Kauffmann

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Ovid Met. 4.605-11
Catullus, 64.50-201
Apollodorus Libr. 2.2-4

Angelica Kauffmann, 1741-1807, "Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus," oil on canvas, Dresden, Gemäldegallerie, no. 2183.

Kauffmann engaged the theme in 1774 as well (=Ariadne1.0096_Kauffmann)

Ariadne, often depicted by painters as sleeping obliviously as Theseus departs, here too (as in 1.0096) awakens in terror on the bed where she and Theseus have spent the night. This is consistent with the attitude of Catullus' classical poem, though the poet has the abandoned girl standing in the surging waves.

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Kauffmann, Ariadne

OGCMA entries for Ariadne are not utterly demarcated from usages of "Ariadne" (sola). It would seem that depictions of the Minoid immediately after her abandonment qualifies as "Ariadne" while usages treating her rescue by Dionysos go in as "DionysosAriadne".

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.