From jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Tue Oct 1 05:48:23 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g91CmMFD039288 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 05:48:22 -0700 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Tue Oct 01 05:48:21 2002 -0700 Received: from cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (cerberus.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.2.162]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g91CmLMG029987 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 05:48:21 -0700 Received: from [134.153.128.98] (drusus.clas.mun.ca [134.153.128.98]) by cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g91CmFHh011542 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:18:17 -0230 (NDT) X-Sender: jbutrica@pop.morgan.ucs.mun.ca Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <032b01c268b3$450cd9e0$6303a5d8@computer> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:18:18 +0100 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: James Butrica Subject: Re: Ariadne auf Dia > Dia is thought to be the little island just north of Knossos. Gantz >115 says the story is recounted by Pherekydes [3F148] in which Theseus >abandons Ariadne on Dia at the instruction of Athena. Dionysos arrives, >does his thing, gives her a crown & leaves. Artemis then slays her for >losing her virginity. All the gods appear at their worst. DW ---- >Original Message ----- > It's perhaps worth adding that Dia is supposed to have been an ancient name for Naxos, according to Callimachus fr. 601 and various ancient scholarly sources cited by Pfeiffer ad loc. I wonder who is responsible for the "revised" version with catasterism -- Callimachus himself, perhaps? -- and whose reputation is supposed to be saved by it, Ariadne's or Dionysus'? The Strauss-von Hofmannsthal Ariadne might prefer this version, since it is Death that she is awaiting and Death that she thinks she encounters when Bacchus comes barking.. James L. P. Butrica Department of Classics The Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's NL A1C 5S7 (709) 737-7914 / (709) 753-5799 (home) .