Ariadne2.0010_Aubry-Lecomte

Musée Carnavalet site
Apollod. Libr. 3.1.2
Catullus 64.50-201
Ov. Met. 8.170-82

Hyacinthe Louis Aubry-Lecomte, 1787-1858, "Ariadne Abandonée," engraving for print, 1822, Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, no. G.7203.

A sleeping nude Ariadne is oblivious to the departure of Theseus in his ship on the horizon.

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.