Ariadnefäden
English translation: Ariadne's thread
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peer agreement (net): +9Ariadne's thread Explanation: Look at the thousands explanations you will find in Google... Es kommt aus der Mythologie. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2004-03-06 16:41:20 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/info_labyrinth/ariadne.h... Ariadne\'s Thread and the Labyrinth in Classical Mythology Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos of Crete. Minos had Daedalus build a Labyrinth, a house of winding passages, to house the bull-man, the Minotaur, the beast that his wife Pasiphae bore after having intercourse with a bull. (Minos had refused to sacrifice a bull to Poseidon, as the king promised, so the god took revenge by causing his wife to desire the bull--but that\'s another story.) Minos required tribute from Athens in the form of young men and women to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. Theseus, an Athenian, volunteered to accompany one of these groups of victims to deliver his country from the tribute to Minos. Ariadne fell in love with Theseus and gave him a thread which he let unwind through the Labyrinth so that he was able to kill the Minotaur and find his way back out again. Ovid says that Daedalus built a house in which he confused the usual passages and deceived the eye with a conflicting maze of various wandering paths (in errorem variarum ambage viarum) (Metamorphoses 8.161)... \"so Daedalus made the innumerable paths of deception [innumeras errore vias], and he was barely able to return to the entrance: so deceptive was the house [tanta est fallacia tecti]\" (8.166-68). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2004-03-06 16:42:50 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.soils.wisc.edu/~barak/soilscience326/ariadne.htm Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos of Crete, fell in love with Theseus, a Greek hero who came to Crete to slay the Minotaur, a half-man/half-beast monster who lived in a subterranean Labyrinth (maze). Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of yarn which he unwound as he entered the Labyrinth to slay the Minotaur. After slaying the Minotaur, Theseus followed the thread back to entrance of the Labyrinth, rejoined Ariadne, and successfully escaped Crete. The hypertext could perhaps be compared instead to a trail of breadcrumbs but it should be remembered that Hänsel and Gretel\'s trail of breadcrumbs, left to find the way back home, was eaten up by the birds of the forest and was unsuccessful. |
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