ARIADNE The daughter of King Minos of Crete, and sister to the bestial Minotaur, Ariadne was carried off by Theseus when he escaped from Crete with the head of the Minotaur. Theseus and Aridane fell in love, but the hero, his heart hardened by the, in the end, merciless killing of the Minotaur, abandoned her on the island of Naxos. She was later found by the wine god< a href="Dionysos.htm">Dionysos, and forgot her sorrow at the betrayal of Theseus.