DionysosAriadne1.0022_Carracci

DionysosAriadne1.0022_Carracci

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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

Annibale Carracci, 1560-1609, "The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne," part of the ceiling fresco cycle The Loves of the Gods, ca. 1597, Rome, Palazzo Farnese, Farnese Gallery, in situ.

Ariadne's rescue and triumph at Dionysos' side is the centerpiece of Carracci's masterful ceiling (see lower image, right). Rimming the Triumph are frescoes of "Paris Receiving Mercury's Charge (or The Judgment of Paris)," "Hercules and Omphale," "Hercules and Nessus' Abduction of Deianeira," "Diana and Endymion," "The Rape of Persephone," and others.

The image at right is in the public domain and protected by Creative Commons.

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.