5/13/2023 0 Comments Ariadne by jennifer saint summaryBut since he’s been born, her mother seems to get more and more distant with every passing day, as the half-bull child grows into a nightmarish creature whom Minos renames the Minotaur after himself, and who needs to be trapped in a labyrinth running underneath the king’s palace. Saint’s mesmerisingly beautiful prose makes Ariadne a fascinating read, even though it doesn’t quite live up to the standards set by other feminist Greek myth retellings like Madeline Miller’s Circe, and ultimately doesn’t really stand out amongst the many mythological reimaginings we’ve been getting over the past few years.Īriadne, the eldest princess of Crete, still remembers the time before her monstrous brother Asterion’s birth, when her mother used to smile and dance with her and tell her the stories of gods and heroes and monsters. In her feminist reimagining of Ariadne’s tale, Saint hands over narrative agency to princess Ariadne and her sister Phaedra, instead of the better known heroes like Theseus and the god Dionysus whose lives got intertwined with those of the two sisters’. If you are familiar with the ancient Greek myths and legends, you might know Ariadne as the traitorous daughter of King Minos who betrayed her family and kingdom, and helped the Athenian prince Theseus kill the Minotaur, a monster who was her own brother. Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne is a retelling of the story of the Cretan princess Ariadne, a well-known figure from the Greek myths.
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