Ariadne (disambiguation)

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Ariadne was a figure in Greek mythology. There is also a (Latin) variant of Ariadna.

Ariadne may also refer to:

People and characters

• 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
• 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 portrayed by Ellen Page in the film Inception
• Ariadne, a character in the Korean manhwa Ares
• Ariadne, a character from British TV series Atlantis

Art and music

• Sleeping Ariadne, a Roman sculpture in the Vatican Museums
• Ariadne auf Naxos, an opera by Richard Strauss
• Ariadne (poem), a 1932 epic by F. L. Lucas
• Ariadne (EP), a 2004 extended play released by The Clientele
• Ariadne musica, a collection of organ music by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
• Ariadne: A Social Art Network, a collaborative art group founded by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz-Starus

Taxonomy

• Ariadne (genus), a genus of nymphalid butterflies
• Scinax ariadne, a species of frog endemic to Brazil
• Ariadne, synonym of Mazaea, a genus of flowering plants

Ships

• HMS Ariadne, one of several Royal Navy ships
• Ariadne (1794 ship), an English merchantman sailing to India and the West Indies
• SMS Ariadne (1871), a Germany naval ship, launched 1871
• SMS Ariadne, a German ship of the First World War

Other uses

• Ariadne (psychedelic), a psychedelic drug
• 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

See also

• All pages with a title containing Ariadne
• Ariadna, a genus of tube-dwelling spider
• All pages with a title containing Ariadna
• Ariane (disambiguation), the French translation of the Greek name Ariadne
• Ariana (disambiguation)
• Arianna (disambiguation)

References