![]() ![]() The demigod Dionysius, who lives on Naxos, finds Ariadne and marries her. ![]() Sister Phaedra flees to Athens to avoid the wrath of Minos and because she, too, has fallen in love with Theseus. Fleeing the wrath of Minos, Theseus brings Ariadne to Naxos, a nearby island, where he seduces and abandons her, for no apparent reason. When the hero Theseus arrives with his fellow citizens of Athens as forced tributes to the monster, Ariadne falls in love with him and, with the assistance of Daedalus (yes, THAT Daedalus!) the brilliant engineer, provides the key to the maze prison so that Theseus can slay her brother. Pasiphae is forced by Poseidon's anger at Minos to mate with a bull and gives birth to the Minotaur. There's an amazing cast of well-known monsters, heroes, and deities, but the dual narrations by the daughters of Minos, tyrant king of Crete, and his wife Pasiphae, reveal previously unimagined events and circumstances. Of all the recent books offering lookbacks on the roles of women in Greek mythology, this straightforward rendering of the stories of sisters Ariadne and Phaedra is the most enlightening. ![]()
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