12-04-2016, 01:54 AM
----eventually to be the consort of a god!
i've been reading about the Theseus myth a lot lately, so i sorta appreciate this. but i always found Ariadne's role in the affair to be somewhat, i dunno, marginal, compared to the far more compelling Medea -- then again, Medea. my favorite bits about the myth are the poeticness of it all -- in my personal redaction, it begins with him killing a bunch of primordial monsters all Heracles-style to his city, but only six of them, compared to Heracles' 12, and then when goes through katabasis all he does is get stuck there until Heracles saves him. and he dies by being thrown off a cliff by his own people! a king deposed by [a rudimentary form of] democracy, by the very people he hoisted....
but look at me, marginalizing this show's female star. how Athenian of me. as for the piece, it's nice, though it reads a little too trite (biker gang of winos sounds a tad too Roman for the sense of Dionysus I read here, and Dionysus is nowhere near as tough in Greek comedy), but maybe that's just coz' of how much i'm starting to read into this tale. apparently she hanged herself post-marriage to dionysus...and ooh, she and semele were the ones rescued by the god when he went through his own katabasis! awesome.
i've been reading about the Theseus myth a lot lately, so i sorta appreciate this. but i always found Ariadne's role in the affair to be somewhat, i dunno, marginal, compared to the far more compelling Medea -- then again, Medea. my favorite bits about the myth are the poeticness of it all -- in my personal redaction, it begins with him killing a bunch of primordial monsters all Heracles-style to his city, but only six of them, compared to Heracles' 12, and then when goes through katabasis all he does is get stuck there until Heracles saves him. and he dies by being thrown off a cliff by his own people! a king deposed by [a rudimentary form of] democracy, by the very people he hoisted....
but look at me, marginalizing this show's female star. how Athenian of me. as for the piece, it's nice, though it reads a little too trite (biker gang of winos sounds a tad too Roman for the sense of Dionysus I read here, and Dionysus is nowhere near as tough in Greek comedy), but maybe that's just coz' of how much i'm starting to read into this tale. apparently she hanged herself post-marriage to dionysus...and ooh, she and semele were the ones rescued by the god when he went through his own katabasis! awesome.