Ariadne (disambiguation)

Ariadne was a figure in Greek mythology.

Ariadne may also refer to:

People and characters

Persons

• Ariadne (empress), a Byzantine Empress from the late 5th century
• Ariadne of Phrygia, Christian saint
• Ariadne Getty (born 1962), American philanthropist
• Ariadne Welter (1930–1998), Mexican actress

Fictional characters

• Ariadne Oliver, a fictional character in the novels of Agatha Christie
• Ariadne the spider, a character in the British children's animated TV series Creepy Crawlies
• Ariadne, a character in the film Inception
• Ariadne, a character in the Korean manhwa Ares
• Ariadne, a character from British TV series Atlantis

Places

• 43 Ariadne, the second-largest member of the Flora asteroid family
  • Ariadne family, the Ariadnes, the asteroid family that 43 Ariadne belongs to, also called the Flora family
• Ariadnes Colles (Ariadne Hills), Eridania, Mars; a range of hills on planet Mars
• Lacus Ariadnes (Lake Ariadne), a basin of Eridania Lake, a lakebed on planet Mars; see Lakes on Mars
• Ariadne (crater), a crater on Venus

Arts, entertainment, media

• Sleeping Ariadne, a Roman sculpture in the Vatican Museums
• Ariadne (Giorgio de Chirico painting), an 1813 painting by Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico
• Ariadne: A Social Art Network, a collaborative art group founded by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz-Starus
• "Ariadne", an episode of the 2019 TV series Russian Doll

Literature

• Ariadne (archive), the department of the Austrian National Library devoted to women's and gender studies
• Ariadne (poem), a 1932 epic by F. L. Lucas
• Ariadne (short story), a 1895 story by Anton Chekhov
• Ariadne (web magazine), an Information Sciences journal published by Loughborough University

Music

• Ariadne (EP), a 2004 extended play released by The Clientele
• Ariadne musica, a collection of organ music by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

Stage

• Ariadne (ballet), 1878, with Marius Petipa and Julius Reisinger
• Ariadne auf Naxos, 1912 opera by Richard Strauss

Taxonomy

• Ariadne (butterfly), a genus of nymphalid butterflies
  • Ariadne ariadne (A. ariadne), a species of butterfly
• Ariadne, a genus of flowering plants, synonym of Mazaea
• Scinax ariadne, a species of frog endemic to Brazil

Transport and vehicular

• GWR Ariadne Class, a broad gauge 0-6-0 steam locomotive class from Great Western Railroad
• Ariadne (ship), the name of several ships
  • HMS Ariadne, a British Royal Navy shipname and list of ships with that name
• Ariadne-class corvette, a German Imperial Navy class of steam screw corvette
• Ariadne-class frigate, a British Royal Navy class of sail frigate; see List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy

Other uses

• Ariadne (drug) (also stylized ARIADNE), a psychoactive drug
• Ariadne (software) (also stylized ARIADNE), an Educational Content Management System
• Ariadne Labs, a U.S. health systems development center
• Ariadnet (Ariadne Network), Programme Ariadne, a Greek research computer network
• Ariadne's thread (logic), an algorithm in puzzle-solving
• Ariadne, name in Greece for the January 2017 European cold wave

See also

• Ariadne Classic, an Australian women's tennis tournament
• All pages with titles beginning with Ariadne
• All pages with titles containing Ariadne
• Ariadna (disambiguation)
• Ariana (disambiguation)
• Ariane (disambiguation)
• Arianna (disambiguation)
• Bacchus and Ariadne (disambiguation)