Ariadne1.0187_DeMorgan

Ariadne1.0187_DeMorgan

DeMorgan Foundation site
Ovid Met. 4.605-11
Ovid Heroides 10
alt URL for Ov. Her. 10 in Loeb
Catullus, 64.50-201

Apollod. Libr. 2.2-4

Everlyn Pickering De Morgan, 1855-1919, "Ariadne in Naxos," oil on canvas, 1877, Compton, Guildford, Surrey, UK The De Morgan Foundation, P_EDM_0003.

Ariadne, often depicted by painters as sleeping obliviously as Theseus departs, has awakened, spent her fury, and now collapsed in awareness of her abject state. De Morgan's real contributions in this picture are the red gown (martyrdom? guilt for having forsaken her family? unchastity?) and especially the sea shells strewn symbolically over the beach, "symboliz[ing] female sexuality, fetility, and love" (De Morgan site).

The image at right is linked on the De Morgan Foundation website .

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.