Bacchus and Ariadne

As I'm currently reading the myth of Bacchus and Ariande, I was pleased to find a huge mosaic telling the story.

Ariadne was the eldest daughter of King Minos of Crete. Every year Athens had to send a tribute of 6 young boys and 6 young girls, that Minos would send into the vast underground labyrinth which held the bull-headed monster of the minotaur. Theseus, Prince of Athens, came with one years tribute and, with ariadne's help entered the labyrinth and killed the minotaur. She fell in love with Theseus and when he left she sailed away with him,but he abandoned her alone on the island of Naxos.

The god Dionysius (Bacchus) took pity on her and, enchanted by her beauty, married her.Read more