Wall painting: Ariadne waking on the shore of Naxos

Araidne (foreground center) lies on a mattress or pallet with a pillow as backrest. She supports herself on her right arm while raising her left, in which she holds a length of the cloth covering her, toward a ship sailing away in the background. In the stern of the ship the steersman points to the right away from Ariadne.

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Ariadne and Theseus (1st century AD). Wall painting from Herculaneum. British Museum 1867,0508.1358. © Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.

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Image Source: The British Museum

Associated Passages

Ovid, Amores 1.7

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