Forgotten Female Figures in Global Mythology: Unearthing Hidden Goddesses and Silenced Heroines Introduction: The Stories We Haven’t Heard When you think of mythology, certain names spring to mind: mighty gods, brave warriors, epic battles. But behind these big stories is a quieter reality. Countless female figures have been ignored, erased or cast as niche players. Such marginalisation is particularly resonant in the case of mighty goddesses and heroines whose narratives once carnalised the nuances of cultural, spiritual and symbolic knowledge but were systematically rendered otiose from dominant praxis.

Mythology is filled with powerful women whose stories, pushed into the shadows. https://t.ly/X36Qg

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Kauffmann has painted the beautiful, tragic Ariadne laying across a sumptuous chaise on the seashore. The chaise is situated under an overhanging rock-face, almost a shelter at the head of the bed. Over a thick, brocade covered cushion-mattress is a red, gold-fringed coverlet upon which she’s laying. There is an open - but not emptied - ornate, wooden casket full of jewellery beside the chaise bed, a gold chain necklace spilling over the edge. A slender, gold stick - perhaps her own sceptre - is seen leaning against the casket’s open lid. Ariadne is wearing an ivory nightgown with a golden edged, gossamer fabric overlay. The fabric drapes across the length of her semi-prone body, with the neckline slightly slipping down to show her pale right shoulder. Her left leg, just to the knee, is visible. Her right arm - two thin, gold bracelets around her wrist - is outstretched towards the sea, palm facing outward. But the sorrowful face of this red-haired princess is turned away, her left hand held up close - but not obscuring - her face, her left elbow resting upon the soft “headboard” of the chaise. That left palm, too, is turned up and outward, towards the sea, as if to push away the unbearable pain of realising she has been abandoned by Theseus, whom she had helped escape a maze containing the monster known as the Minotaur. Now she has awakened alone…For, barely visible and close to the horizon on the left hand side of the dark grey sea, is a vague shadow of the boat upon which Theseus has left. The skies above are a deep rose brown, as if it may just be approaching Dawn… Exquisitely beautiful, yet terribly tragic for the innocent heroine Ariadne, whose varied versions of her life story would be depicted in paintings and sculptures for centuries, from the walls of Pompeii to the 1700s and beyond. She remains the inspiration for so much art and literature…and, interestingly, not always seen as tragic…

Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus -Angelica Kauffmann oil on canvas 1774 #art #painting
As often happens w/characters fr/ #mythology her story varies. Best known is the version in wh/she helped Theseus escape the #maze where the monster #Minotaur lived…
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Medusa, front profile, with her eyes closed and a peaceful expression on her face.

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