<P> Plutarch, in his vita of Theseus, which treats him as a historical individual, reports that in the Naxos of his day, an earthly Ariadne was separate from a celestial one: </P> <P> Some of the Naxians also have a story of their own, that there were two Minoses and two Ariadnes, one of whom, they say, was married to Dionysos in Naxos and bore him Staphylos and his brother, and the other, of a later time, having been carried off by Theseus and then abandoned by him, came to Naxos, accompanied by a nurse named Korkyne, whose tomb they show; and that this Ariadne also died there . </P> <P> In a kylix by the painter Aison (c. 425--c. 410 BCE) Theseus drags the Minotaur from a temple - like labyrinth, but the goddess who attends him, in this Attic representation, is Athena . </P> <P> An ancient cult of Aphrodite - Ariadne was observed at Amathus, Cyprus, according to the obscure Hellenistic mythographer Paeon of Amathus; Paeon's works are lost, but his narrative is among the sources cited by Plutarch in his vita of Theseus (20.3 -. 5). According to the myth that was current at Amathus, the second most important Cypriote cult centre of Aphrodite, Theseus's ship was swept off course and the pregnant and suffering Ariadne put ashore in the storm . Theseus, attempting to secure the ship, was inadvertently swept out to sea, thus being absolved of abandonment . The Cypriote women cared for Ariadne, who died in childbirth and was memorialized in a shrine . Theseus, overcome with grief upon his return, left money for sacrifices to Ariadne and ordered two cult images, one of silver and one of bronze, set up . At the observation in her honour on the second day of the month Gorpiaeus, one of the young men lay on the ground vicariously experiencing the throes of labour . The sacred grove in which the shrine was located was called the grove of Aphrodite Ariadne . </P>

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