Ariadne & Aphrodite's friendship/ connections
• Ariadne already worshipped her
"On his voyage from Crete, Theseus put in at Delos, and having sacrificed to the god and dedicated the image of Aphrodite which he had received from Ariadne [...]"- Plutarch, Life of Theseus
"In the meantime Eros [while Ariadne is in Naxos abandoned] mistakenly thought he beheld Aphrodite there, gorgeous weeping resplendent in Naxos where none should feel sadness. Sadness became Ariadne, whose beauty surpassed Aphrodite's, charactered only with joy, Aphrodite's expression was lifeless viewed against lineaments drawn in the chiaroscuro of true grief. - Nonnus, Dionysiaca
"He [Theseus] immediately woke up and did this [abandoned her]. While Ariadne was lamenting, Aphrodite appeared and told her to take heart, for she would become the wife of Dionysos and would be famous."- D scholia to the Iliad
"[Liber]: I will create a monument of you and your crown, which Volcanus gave Venus and she gave you."- Ovid, Fasti
"When Ariadne wed Liber on the island of Dia, and all the gods gave her wedding gifts, she first received this crown as a gift from Venus and the Horae. But, as the author of the Cretica says, at the time when Liber came to Minos with the hope of lying with Ariadne, he gave her this crown as a present. Delighted with it, she did not refuse the terms."- Hyginus, Astronomica
• They can even be syncretized!
"[...] one of their young men lies down and imitates the cries and gestures of women in travail [because of an alternative myth where Ariadne died in childbirth]; and that they call the grove in which they show her tomb, the grove of Ariadne Aphrodite."- Plutarch, Life of Theseus
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