Among the numerous treatments of the parable,
Catullus’s poem sixty four is super for its
extended description of Ariadne on the seashore, its examination of her emotions, and its complex reinterpretation of the parable in the light of Roman ethics and late republican society.
In wellknown, Ariadne was a favorite subject within the Hellenistic and Roman period: Her story is a high instance of the myths of suffering in love and the emotional plight of heroines that poets of this era enjoyed exploring. Apollonius of Rhodes, in his Voyage of theArgonauts, makes plenty of her structural similarity to Medea. Like Medea, she is a foreign girls who falls in love with a Greek, enables him accomplish his heroic quest, leaves behind her father and homeland for him, then is deserted with the ai
