#ariadne and theseus

[weird-tea]

Thinking about how Jason pitched to Medea that if she helped him she'd be like Ariadne helping Theseus with the Labyrinth and this working, only for Ariadne and Medea to be left behind/betrayed by their loves.

[delumineight]

dark (2017-2020) — martha and jonas as ariadne and theseus

obviously spoiler warning if you’re currently watching/haven’t watched or plan to

no i don’t care that she’s his aunt. everyone in that damn show is related anyway!

EVERYONE seems to make the adam and eve connection, of course, because that is what they go by in their +66 year versions of themselves. it makes perfect sense too, considering they are the creators of the time loop. the creators of their entire bloodline, their child (unnamed/origin) is the father of tronte nielsen in both universes.

however, the ariadne and theseus connection is also canon. the very first scene in which we meet martha she is reading her lines for the play ariadne where she plays the lead. the next episode jonas enters the theater during rehearsal, where she’s giving the big monologue.

“the spinning wheel turns, round and round in a circle. one fate tied to the next. a thread, red like blood, that cleaves together all our deeds. one cannot unravel the knots. but they can be severed. he severed ours, with the sharpest blade. yet something remains that cannot be severed. an invisible bond.”

then immediately after this they share their first kiss unless you’re counting the couple in 206 when jonas goes back in time and kisses her. when jonas enters the bunker for the first time he finds a red (like blood) thread tied in a knot.

and then during the actual play she breaks into tears on the stage when katharina has to run out and rush her off stage. this is also the night that jonas time travels for the first time.

greek mythology:

ariadne is the daughter of king minos of crete. minos has a deal with athenians to send 7 boys and 7 girls annually to dedalus’s labyrinth as to sacrifice them to the minotaur. soon minos put ariadne is charge of the labyrinth. one year the sacrificial group included the athenian king’s son, theseus. he immediately volunteers to kill the minotaur instead of being eaten by it. ariadne falls in love with him for his bravery. before he traveled into the labyrinth, she gave him a sword and a red ball of yarn so that he would be able to leave it in his path and know his way out. after this they eloped and went to the naxos island where theseus ended up abandoning her. when he had realized what he had done, it was too late for him to come back and save her.

dark

obviously, this is all season 1+2. the volunteering of theseus can only be mirrored with jonas’s willingness to go into the caves after the disappearance of mikkel. we later find out in 206 that martha had a crush on jonas (and it was reciprocated) before micheal committed suicide and jonas finds his body, leading to his mental hospitalization.

with the red string and sword though, it can get a bit muddy in terms of comparing these two to the myth as +33yrs jonas gives him the map of the caves, the flashlight, and tells him to follow the string. however the string is very obviously red and it’s shown as jonas and others use it to guide them through the cave. the abandonment would come in with jonas being trapped in time. when he finally comes back, he reunites with her for minutes before adam comes in and kills her.

furthermore ariadne dies in childbirth. which doesn’t happen to martha, but she is pregnant when she… dies? or bursts into dust? whatever happened there, we know that she was carrying the origin and that his birth would trigger the loop to happen all over again.

and the play itself and red string isn’t the only thing that implies this connection. when they have sex in the third season, when they conceive their origin, the song playing the background is the labyrinth song by asaf avidan.

“oh, ariadne, i am coming, i just need to work this maze inside my heart — i was blind, i thought you’d bind me, but you offered me a chart — oh, ariadne, i am coming, i just need to work this maze inside my heart — if i’d known that you could guide me, i’d have listened from the start — … — oh, ariadne, i was coming, but i failed you in this labyrinth of my past — oh, ariadne, let me sing you, and we’ll make each other last.”

another detail we know about original martha is that she’s big into theater. on her bedroom walls she has posters for ariadne, macbeth, and romeo and juliet. i believe each of these have a connection with the story, ariadne being the biggest connection.

macbeth: a story of a married couple killing everyone so that macbeth can become king. an endless slaughter. much like what adam and sic mundus attempt to by trying to find a paradise.

romeo and juliet: though martha and jonas aren’t technically from two different households, they are raised as such. martha’s father ulrich and jonas’s mother hannah are, well, constantly fucking. katharina finds this out pretty early in the series. when she meets +33yrs jonas with martha she threatens him and when she travels back to 1986 she threatens a teenage hannah. there’s also a line in 206 where ulrich teases the ongoing crushes that martha and jonas have on each other by calling jonas “romeo.”

god, has anyone else here even watched this show? i doubt it. i highly suggest it and it is very binge-able. if you have seen it please let me know if you want to hear me talk about it more. i’ve only watched it through once and im so engaged by the lore and theory and the issues of it all.

[sanska]

Ariadne explaining how to navigate the labyrinth (and after) to Theseus. It’s important, she’s committing treason for you Theseus, don’t look at her like that.

[xjulixred45x]

As You may know, i'm a BIG fan of Ariadne and Dionysus as a couple, and FINALLY IN HADES 2 WE HAVE THIS PICTURE OF HER:

SHE IS FRIKING BEAUTIFULL

And some people think that for the vague dialogues of Dio in Hades 1 they MIGHT not be a couple in the Game, but i don't believe this for 1- most of the relationships that dosen't include incest are the same in the game and Mythology, 2- this dialogue of Dio

3- when Theseus use the boons of Dionysus THEY HURT HIM TOO, kinda personal.

And then there's this little easter egg(?) if You could call it that in Ariadne's desing, that makes me CRAZY.

You see, in the myths, when Dionysus marries Ariadne, as a weeding gift, he gives her a TIARA and even makes the same tiara a constelation.

And then i look up in the desing of Ariadne, AND THOSE BLACK SPOTS AND THINK "OH MAN, THOSE THINGS ARE THE TIARA".

Idk, just want them to be a thing, i think they're neat.

[greeknerdsstuff]

Have you ever seen the difference between a maze and a labyrinth and thought to yourself, Oh my God, Ariadne saw Theseus and thought, He's big, handsome, and dumb.I have to help him. He won't be able to do it alone.

[bobbole]

Moebius, Le fil d'Ariane

[gigizetz]

Character design for Theseus and Ariadne. I was going to make the Minotaur as well, but I got very lazy. My version of him is pretty generic though

[illustratus]

Ariadne on Naxos by Julius Kronberg

[smile-files]

o ariadne, accomplice to the minotaur's murder; your scarlet string is his blood in your hands... and yet theseus, forsaking sand and sail, is the only creature dead to you

(objectober 2024 day 18: maze)

maze generated on https://www.mazegenerator.net

[orkazh-arts]

Bonding with the half-brother 🐮��✨

Or, Ariadne and Asterion (the Minotaur) spend some quality time together because f*ck Theseus 💅😌✨

[anxiousdreamcore]

“You abandoned me, sister. Where were you when father king Minos cast me into this prison? Where were you all these years while I pleaded for freedom, forced to eat human flesh to survive?”

“I never forgot you, Asterion. You’ll walk free tonight. We both will.”

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A.k.a doodle of a Greek mythology AU where Ariadne saves the minotaur and they have a wholesome sibling bond🥹

(Commission list)

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(Do not repost my artwork on any other platform, with or without credit. I DO NOT give my consent to do so and I will find it☺️)

[neptunesize]

𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓭𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓮

a dionysus and ariadne playlist

✦ Bedroom Hymns - Florence and the Machine

✦ Glitter & Gloss - Skott

✦ Fool - Børns

✦ Is Everybody Going Crazy - Nothing but Thieves

and more! listen here!

[sarafangirlart]

I think another thing that goes against Kaos as a show isn’t the writing itself but Netflix being Hellbent on making tv shows shorter and like “really long movies” where the story isn’t episodic even tho it’s cut into episodes therefore the pacing is so confusing to the point that an entire side plot isn’t brought up for a whole episode or two.

Not to mention that it makes the character interactions bare bones and bland, if you want to write relationships that aren’t canon in mythology, fine, whatever, just give me good reason to care about this couple. Supergiant’s Hades (for all its flaws) succeeds at this.

We are supposed to be sad about Prometheus and Charon separating but we literally see them as a couple for like what? Five minutes? The show doesn’t give us enough time to gaf about their relationship other than it’s “good representation” to have two old men in a relationship.

Eurydice and Caeneus have known each other for what couldn’t be more than a couple of days then see the Nothing and have their entire world view shattered then they fall in love and have sex? Only for Orpheus to be going through hell and back trying to get his wife back so how tf are we supposed to be invested in Eurydice cheating? Again the show doesn’t give us good reason to care for this couple other than its good representation.

Bruh don’t even get me started on Theseus and Astyanax, that’s the most bare bones of them all, I didn’t even catch that they were a couple until they had sex. Theseus has more screen time and chemistry with Ariadne than his supposed lover. Also stop trying to make good guy Theseus happen, it’s not going to happen.

The only fanon relationship that makes logical sense (as in within the story but as an adaptation it’s dog shit and I hate it) is Hera and Poseidon, they actually get multiple scenes and dialogue together so even if you are like me and hate to see them as a couple, it still makes logical sense for them as characters to like each other, but only if you don’t think of them as an adaptation.

[the-evil-clergyman]

Ariadne by John William Waterhouse (1898)

[thearchaicsmile]

Fresco from Pompeii depicting a weeping Ariadne after being abandoned by Theseus on the island of Naxos, 1st century AD.

🏛️: Archaeological Museum of Naples

[tylermileslockett]

Theseus #6 (The Abandonment of Ariadne)

Having succeeded in his mission to slay the Minotaur, breaking King Minos demand for yearly sacrifices of Athenian tributes, Theseus flees Crete with the Princess Ariadne in the cover of night. A terrible storm forces them to stop on the Island of Dia (Nexos), where they find rest and respite in the safety and warmth of each other’s arms. But that night, Dionysus visits Theseus in a dream, threatening death if he does not abandon the princess, for Dionysus has also fallen in love with her. With a heavy heart, Theseus sneaks away in the night and puts out to sea, leaving her behind. Dionysus takes Ariadne as his wife, eventually bringing her to Olympus, making her immortal, and begetting many children with her.

there are many different versions told of princess Ariadne’s fate. According to the cryptic passage in Homer’s Odyssey, on the island of Naxos, she was slain by Artemis with Dionysus as witness; suggesting a blasphemous act of lust within the god’s sacred grove (mirroring Ovid’s later ending for the Atalanta myth).  Plutarch, in his Life of Theseus chapter from his work “Parallel lives,��� recounts an array of variations; from her hanging herself upon abandonment, to her settling down with a Dionysian priest. There’s even a version that tells of Ariadne being turned to stone by Perseus! Ovid says that Dionysus set Ariadne’s jeweled Cretan crown up into the night sky, becoming the constellation “Corona Borealis.”

Another fascinating version is the Roman poet Catullus’ “Poem 64”, which has a furious Ariadne calling on goddesses to curse Theseus for abandoning her, which results in the many tragedies that follow in the hero’s life.

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