#sanskart (mythos)

[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.

[sanska]

Guys do you think he’s spooky

[sanska]

“My hair is Holy,

I grow it for the god.”

- Bacchae, Euripedes

Hair in the Bacchae is like a really minor thing but I was plagued by this vision the whole afternoon!! I need to banish these scenes from my head and work on my actual research subjects or I’ll go insane fr

Early on in the play Penthus roughly grabs Dionysus’ hair and cuts it, and later he is given a long wig and has a loose lock of hair gently fixed by Dionysus when he dresses up as a maenad. Isn’t that something? Violence juxtaposed against tenderness and how Pentheus slowly forgets his self clothed like a follower of the very god he opposes. I coloured the ends of the wig purple because making the wig from the hair Pentheus cut is hilarious and probably something Dionysus would do ngl

Anyway I can already tell the proportions/hands/quality is fried but idc I needed to draw this and yell at the void a little, y’all can enjoy it too I guess <3

[sanska]

“If I turn from the beach there is no roof in this tenantless island, no way shows a passage, circled by waves of the sea; no way of flight, no hope; all denotes dumbness, desolation, and death. Nevertheless my eyes shall not be dimmed in death, nor my senses secede from my spent frame, until I have besought from the gods a just penalty for my betrayal, and implored the faith of the celestials with my last breath.”

I feel like depictions of Ariadne on Naxos kinda mostly portray sleeping or sad Ariadne but like. Where’s my “sped-run the five stages of grief on Naxos” Ariadne. All this to say I love “pissed off and calling for divine intervention” Ariadne from Catallus 64 very much speak your truth darling

Also added a bunch of panels where her thread leads a silly little guy to her because I want her to have a happy ending :]

[sanska]

[Leaving]

I have so many questions about the story of Ariadne’s abandonment on Naxos like:

1. On one hand I get not wanting to marry the daughter of the guy who’s sacrificing your people to the cowboy that lives under his castle (even if you originally promised her), but Theseus then marries Ariadne’s sister?? Is it because in some stories Ariadne is running the labyrinth while Phaedra’s mostly not involved or

2. Did Phaedra say nothing on the boat/Naxos before ditching her sister to become Queen of Athens. I desperately want to know what’s their siblings dynamic and if they consider the Minotaur a brother or a monster

3. What is going on in Naxos at this period in the mythos. Was it inhabited by people? Were there only cats and wandering gods? Like on the “getting stranded on a greek island in a mythic scenario” scale where does Naxos lie if you don’t attract godly notice

Anyway drew more Ariadne my favourite greek mythos girl fr

[sanska]

Young sisters Ariadne and Phaedra sketch, I’m testing out kid designs for them for a longer wip with the labyrinth

[sanska]

Dreaming

As a princess Ariadne knows she’ll likely be married off for gold or politics, but that doesn’t mean she can’t daydream about meeting and falling in love with a beautiful stranger :)

[sanska]

“I love all characters I draw equally!” :)

The art:

[sanska]

Oh hello and thank you!! <3

If you meant the Bacchae piece I did then yeah! A silly fact is that the reason for the blank mask is because while drawing it I straight out didn’t have a design in mind for Dionysus’ face :p Then I was checking the play again while drawing maenad!Pentheus and realised that D wears a mask for basically all of it and went: “Perfect. Say no more.”

“If I turn from the beach there is no roof in this tenantless island, no way shows a passage, circled by waves of the sea; no way of flight, no hope; all denotes dumbness, desolation, and death. Nevertheless my eyes shall not be dimmed in death, nor my senses secede from my spent frame, until I have besought from the gods a just penalty for my betrayal, and implored the faith of the celestials with my last breath.”

I feel like depictions of Ariadne on Naxos kinda mostly portray sleeping or sad Ariadne but like. Where’s my “sped-run the five stages of grief on Naxos” Ariadne. All this to say I love “pissed off and calling for divine intervention” Ariadne from Catallus 64 very much speak your truth darling

Also added a bunch of panels where her thread leads a silly little guy to her because I want her to have a happy ending :]