From jmpfund@bgnet.bgsu.edu Mon Sep 30 11:39:47 2002 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g8UIdhFD041914 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:39:43 -0700 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Sep 30 11:39:42 2002 -0700 Received: from smtp01.bgsu.edu (smtp01.bgsu.edu [129.1.5.17]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g8UIdfMG025482 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:39:41 -0700 Received: from [129.1.105.78] (dhcp-105-78.bgsu.edu [129.1.105.78]) by smtp01.bgsu.edu (Switch-2.2.4/Switch-2.2.4) with ESMTP id g8UIfXE26520 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:41:34 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jmpfund@mailstore.bgsu.edu Message-Id: Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:39:39 -0400 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: "James M. Pfundstein" Subject: Ariadne auf Dia Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Filtered: Sendmail MIME Filter v2.3.0 smtp01.bgsu.edu g8UIfXE26520 X-AntiVirus: Sendmail Anti-Virus Filter smtp01.bgsu.edu 4.1.60 4225 g8UIfXE26520 Does anyone know the story behind Homer's passing reference to Ariadne in the _nekuia_ of the _Odyssey_? idon kal=EAn ... Ariadn=EAn, kour=EAn Min=F4os oloophronos, h=EAn pote Th=EAseus ek Kr=EAt=EAs es gounon Ath=EAna=F4n hiera=F4n =EAge men, oud'apon=EAto; paros de min Artemis ekta Di=EAi en amphirut=EAi Dionusou marturi=EAisin. --_Odyssey_ 11.321-325 (text and trans from Perseus) "I saw... fair Ariadne, the daughter of Minos of baneful mind, whom once Theseus was fain to bear from Crete to the hill of sacred Athens; but he had no joy of her, for ere that Artemis slew her in sea-girt Dia because of the witness of Dionysus." This seems incompatible with the later and better known (to me) version where Theseus dumps Ariadne on Naxos, and Bacchus comes along later and marries her. JMP("Polutrupos") .