Ariadne (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Ariadne was a figure in Greek mythology.
Ariadne may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Fictional characters
[edit]- Ariadne Oliver, a fictional character in the novels of Agatha Christie
- Ariadne the spider, a character in the British children's animated TV series Creepy Crawlies
- Ariadne, a character in the film Inception
- Ariadne, a character in the Korean manhwa Ares
- Ariadne, a character from British TV series Atlantis
Other uses in arts and entertainment
[edit]- Ariadne (EP), a 2004 extended play released by The Clientele
- Ariadne (poem), a 1932 epic by F. L. Lucas
- Ariadne auf Naxos, an opera by Richard Strauss
- Ariadne musica, a collection of organ music by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
- Sleeping Ariadne, a Roman sculpture in the Vatican Museums
- Ariadne: A Social Art Network, a collaborative art group founded by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz-Starus
- "Ariadne", an episode of the 2019 TV series Russian Doll
People
[edit]- Ariadne (empress), a Byzantine Empress from the late 5th century
- Ariadne of Phrygia, Christian saint
- Ariadne Getty (born 1962), American philanthropist
- Ariadne Welter (1930–1998), Mexican actress
Taxonomy
[edit]- Ariadne (butterfly), a genus of nymphalid butterflies
- Ariadne, a genus of flowering plants, synonym of Mazaea
- Scinax ariadne, a species of frog endemic to Brazil
Other uses
[edit]- Ariadne (archive), the department of the Austrian National Library devoted to women's and gender studies
- Ariadne (drug), a psychoactive drug
- Ariadne (ship), the name of several ships
- Ariadne (software), an Educational Content Management System
- Ariadne (web magazine), an Information Sciences journal published by Loughborough University
- Ariadne's thread (logic), an algorithm in puzzle-solving
- 43 Ariadne, the second-largest member of the Flora asteroid family
- Ariadne, name in Greece for the January 2017 European cold wave
- Ariadne (crater), a crater on Venus