Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ariadne" in English language version.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)In the movie, Bacchus himself is reclining in the arms of Ariadne (the weaving goddess) [...].
Know, father Bacchus hates the mournful lay.
So thou, O Cretan maid! didst once deplore
A perjured tongue, left lonely on the shore,
As skill'd Catullus tells, who paints in song
The ingrate Theseus, Ariadne's wrong.
Take warning, Youths! oh blest! whoe'er shall know
The art to profit by another's woe.
Let not the hanging nymph's embrace deceive,
Nor protestations of base tongues believe [...].
The motif of the hanged goddess or heroine is quite widespread. [...] the thread running through most of these stories is that they involve heroines who die a wrongful death. The same aetion is used all over the Greek world to explain hanging or swinging rituals. Hanging is a particularly feminine form of death in the Greek mind [...].
Know, father Bacchus hates the mournful lay.
So thou, O Cretan maid! didst once deplore
A perjured tongue, left lonely on the shore,
As skill'd Catullus tells, who paints in song
The ingrate Theseus, Ariadne's wrong.
Take warning, Youths! oh blest! whoe'er shall know
The art to profit by another's woe.
Let not the hanging nymph's embrace deceive,
Nor protestations of base tongues believe [...].
Qui facti sunt ex mortalibus immortales ... Ariadnen Liber pater Liberam appellavit, Minois et Pasiphaes filiam;