Ok I’ve talked before about Dionysus and Perseus’s parallels now I wanna talk about Ariadne and Andromeda’s parallels:
- Both where abandoned by the first men they were to marry, abandoned at their lowest no less, Ariadne left her home and family to be with Theseus only to be abandoned on the island of Naxos. Andromeda was abandoned by Phineus, when she was to be sacrificed to Cetus and he didn’t even try to rescue her, then he had the audacity to demand her back.
- Both were rescued by their future husbands when they were at their lowest.
-While there is very little about their lives after the marriage, we know that they remained by their husbands sides, When Perseus went to Argos to confront Acrisius, Andromeda was by his side. When Dionysus was spreading his cult all over Greece, Ariadne fought alongside him.
- Both had lots of sons lol
