Timeline for Why did Theseus betray Ariadne?
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| Jan 24, 2021 at 11:22 | history | edited | yannis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2016 at 16:08 | comment | added | cmw♦ | @TimLymington No, what's important is whether the retelling is authentic to the ancient Greeks. If Herodotus relates a tale of Theseus, he is giving an account of the beliefs of his contemporaries. Mary Renault is instead giving a modern fictional account of the myths. It's interesting, but it's hardly what OP was asking for. | |
| Feb 13, 2016 at 16:08 | comment | added | cmw♦ | @TomBarker - Theseus and Ariadne were not real people. There was no minotaur to wonder what it might have actually been. I've no problem with speculation, but at that part it belongs in the Science Fiction and Fantasy SE. | |
| Feb 13, 2016 at 11:07 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | @C.M.Weimer: So Plutarch and Hesiod are factual? What is important is whether a retelling is convincing and in the true spirit, not the date of it. | |
| Feb 13, 2016 at 7:17 | comment | added | Tom Barker | she is actually pondering the same question that OP posted and that is her take on it. same as to what the actual minotaur might have been etc. | |
| Feb 13, 2016 at 3:43 | comment | added | cmw♦ | Those are novels, though. She's just making that stuff up. | |
| Feb 13, 2016 at 2:35 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 13, 2016 at 2:32 | history | answered | Tom Barker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |