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Ariadne

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Ariadne

In Greek mythology, the daughter of Minos, King of Crete. When Theseus came from Athens as one of the sacrificial victims offered to the Minotaur, she fell in love with him and gave him a ball of thread, which enabled him to find his way out of the labyrinth. When Theseus abandoned her on the island of Naxos, she married Dionysus.

Ariadne

Opera in one act by Bohuslav Martinů (libretto by composer after G Neveux), first produced in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on 2 March 1961.



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Just before midnight, the door was softly unbarred, and the gentle Ariadne showed herself, with a torch in her hand.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Quickness was ready at the call, and the two figures passed lightly along by the Meleager, towards the hall where the reclining Ariadne, then called the Cleopatra, lies in the marble voluptuousness of her beauty, the drapery folding around her with a petal-like ease and tenderness.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
But Ariadne Blish was the worst failure of all, for Rose could not bear the sight of her, and said she was so like a wax doll she longed to give her a pinch and see if she would squeak.
Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
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