Myths and tales

Pre-Greek mythological stories told or touched upon in Amorous Ariane:

  • The abduction of Europe by Zeus
  • Brotherly dispute between Minos, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon on the dominion over Crete
  • The Cretan bull, untamable and fierce creature
  • Minotaur, half man, half bull?
  • The five wedding gifts of Zeus to Europe: Laelaps, Talos, the never-missing spear, the gold necklace, and last but not least: Asterion for a husband
  • Family names referring to the mother and her mother, not the father and his father
  • Minos' various extramarital love affairs and offspring
  • Pan's hunt for Syrinx and the origin of the Pan flute
  • Pasiphae's jealousy and her revenge on Minos: a horrible venereal disease
  • The Athenian princess Prokris who together with the sorceress Kirke manages to cure Minos
  • The involuntary patricide on Katreus by his own son Althaemenes on Rhodes
  • The paradox of Laelaps and the Teumessian fox
  • The paradox of the always lying Cretan
  • The apple of discord of Eris and the origin of the Trojan war
  • The beauty contest of the Goddesses
  • The abduction of Helen by the Trojan prince Paris
  • Death of Sarpedon in the Trojan war
  • Idomeneus and his offering to Poseidon, on the shore of Crete, of his own son
  • Odysseus and the Goddess Kalypso, who keeps him for seven years
  • Odysseus as castaway and his attempts to reach his homeland Ithaka
  • Theseus and the murder of Minotaur
  • Orestes' revenge and the murder of his mother Clytaemnestra and her lover Aegistheus for the murder of his father Agamemnon
  • Death of Androgeus in Athens after winning the Games
  • Ariane's loves, Theseus (?) and Dionysus
  • Aegeus' death and the namegiving of the Aegean Sea
  • Deukalion and the Argonauts - the elimination of the Talos
  • Daedalus and Ikarus; the winged escape from Hagia Galini
  • Minos' quest for Daedalus
  • Minos' death in bath on Sicily
  • Minos as a judge in the underworld, together with his brothers Rhadamanthys and Aiakos
  • The marriage of Ariane and Dionysus
  • and several other pre-Greek myths and tales.