Two Women, Two Goddesses

Ariadne’s sexual passion for Theseus, the stranger and enemy to Minoan Knossos, is recounted in the second novella by the young woman herself. Her narrative differs from the legend handed down to us by Greek antiquity. Not only because it is a woman who speaks, but also because from the love-struck maiden emerges the power of a princess, a priestess and a goddess. As if things had to come – inevitably and ritualistically – full circle, even in a world that was dying out as the new one emerged. 

In the postface, the author quotes her experiential relationship with the above-mentioned novels, which, as they ought to, differ between themselves in many ways. 

We know about Ariadne’s myth. But what is her personal version ? Ariadne is reversing her myth by retelling it her own way.