![]() It was a tribute – seven Athenian youths and seven Athenian maidens brought every year across the waves to Crete to sate the appetite of the monstrosity that had threatened to shatter my family with shame but instead had elevated us to the status of legends. It wasn’t wealth or power that Minos sought from Athens, however. It begins with her explaining the result of the feud her father, Minos, has with Athens after his son was killed there. ![]() I was thus delighted to discover that Ariadne’s story goes beyond the labyrinth. ![]() Also, if I’d known that the Titian painting to your left was called Bacchus and Ariadne, (as used on the cover of 1993 album God Shuffled His Feet by the Crash Test Dummies), it would also have been clearer. ![]()
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