Can't Escape Classical Greece

Blessings Darlings!

Today the remarkable Suz and I went to the coffee shop to write.  As it happened, we were both writing about Hellenic Paganism.  Which isn't TOTALLY unusual for us, her being Hellenic and me being ... all over the board when it comes to blogging. 

The coffee shop features art for sale.  Some weeks we like the art more than other weeks, of course.  This week, the art was okay, nothing we'd buy if we had the money.  Until .... after writing a while I got up to stretch and looked at the inexpensive monographs by Susan Carney.  Lovely work, in general, and one got us all tingly.  We both took pictures of it to show others.  A monograph entitled "Minotaur", featuring a woman, and bull, a man ... some amount of overlapping.  Figuring out especially when the man and bull began and ended was not clear.

I may come back and buy it, but I'll need a frame for it.

The picture alone got us talking about an aspect of Ariadne we hadn't much considered before - that she is sister to the Minotaur that she helped Theseus kill.  In a sense, she helped him kill a part of herself.  What part of herself lay dead in the labyrinth when Theseus followed the thread back to her?

Gotta love it when you go out into the world and blog "Hellenic" - you're always going to find references and start you thinking!

Frondly, Fern

Addenum - after I got home the Chubby Hubby and I DID go back and buy the Minotaur monograph.  I will need to find a frame for it, of course, but at least we both agreed on a piece of artwork.  I want to put it up in the dining room.