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All rights reserved to the original artist Herbert James Draper. Just a very minor manip of his artwork for my playlist cover [here ].

Ariadne was the daughter of the King of Crete, Minos, who was the son of Zeus and Europa. Her mother Pashipae was the daughter of the sun God, Helios, and the Oceanid, Perse. Minos upset the God of the sea, Poseidon, by refusing to sacrifice the Cretan bull to him. To punish Minos, Poseidon caused Mino's wife, Pashipae to have a lust for the bull, which resorted in the creation of the Minotaur. The Minotaur was a creature with a bull head and a man's body.

Ariadne was in charge of the Minotaur's labyrinth and its sacrifices. She loved the hero Theseus, so she assisted him through the labyrinth by giving him a sword and a ball of thread. She didn't want there to be anymore sacrificial victims to the bull. The ball of thread helped him to find his way through the labyrinth without getting lost in it. Theseus managed to find and kill the Minotaur, Ariadne's half-brother. They later eloped, but he abandoned her on Naxos. The God of wine, fertility, and theater, Dionysus, discovered her and fell in love. They married, but she was later killed by the hero, Perseus. The God traveled to Hades to bring her and his mortal mother, Semele, back to Olympus.

Description
All rights reserved to the original artist Herbert James Draper. Just a very minor manip of his artwork for my playlist cover [here ].

Ariadne was the daughter of the King of Crete, Minos, who was the son of Zeus and Europa. Her mother Pashipae was the daughter of the sun God, Helios, and the Oceanid, Perse. Minos upset the God of the sea, Poseidon, by refusing to sacrifice the Cretan bull to him. To punish Minos, Poseidon caused Mino's wife, Pashipae to have a lust for the bull, which resorted in the creation of the Minotaur. The Minotaur was a creature with a bull head and a man's body.

Ariadne was in charge of the Minotaur's labyrinth and its sacrifices. She loved the hero Theseus, so she assisted him through the labyrinth by giving him a sword and a ball of thread. She didn't want there to be anymore sacrificial victims to the bull. The ball of thread helped him to find his way through the labyrinth without getting lost in it. Theseus managed to find and kill the Minotaur, Ariadne's half-brother. They later eloped, but he abandoned her on Naxos. The God of wine, fertility, and theater, Dionysus, discovered her and fell in love. They married, but she was later killed by the hero, Perseus. The God traveled to Hades to bring her and his mortal mother, Semele, back to Olympus.