Testa and Ariadne. Thread that became a guide

Each of us at least once in life heard the expression "Thread Ariadna". Often we call, so something that helped us sort out in a difficult situation, find a way out of it. The emergence of this phraseology is associated with ancient Greek mythology.

Who is Ariadne?

The thread is a tangle who gave the Athenian hero to the Teshe Ariadne. She was a daughter of King Crete Minos and the sister of the terrible Minotaur who lived in a labyrinth.

Beautiful Ariadna loved the young Athens Youth of Teane. He replied to her reciprocity. But in love was not destined to be together, because Teshesy arrived at Crete along with other young men and girls to die a terrible death. They will be to be victims of a minotaur - a monstrous being, semi-punch-receiving.

Once at nine years, the inhabitants of Athens must give the Minotaur to seven young girls and young men. Such a bloody tribute set the Gods of Olympas for them.

The young son of the Athens Tsar Teshek decided to destroy the monster, thus relieving the native city from the need for terrible victims. But how to cope with this, because in the labyrinth they will be angry with unarmed? Even won, it is unlikely to be saved. Intended corridors and numerous labyrinth rooms with their fatal traps will be the place of death, it is impossible to find a way out of it.

But the daughter came to the rescue conquered by the beauty of the young man. Love made her betray her father and her homeland.

Traveling thread, love and betrayal

In secretly, coming to the Teshe, Ariadne handed him the dagger, which the brave young man should have stabbed a minotaur. And so that he does not get lost in a terrible labyrinte, handed the beloved tangle.

Teskey tied the end of the thread at the entrance to the Palace of Minotaur. Delighted into the labyrinth, he unwound a tangle. And when the young man met with Minotaur and struck him, he found the opposite way with a thread.

From there, the expression "Thread Ariadna", "Guide Thread". But the history of the heroes of the myth does not end.

Ariadne's loving fled from Crete with the Taue on his ship. But she also had to go through betrayal. Once in a strong storm, the ship's ship moaned to the island of Naxos. When the sea calmed down, Teshele went on, throwing a girl sleeping from fatigue. The assistance was forgotten, which Hariadne had, the thread, which gave out the labyrinth, the dagger, who destroyed Minotaurus.

Waking up, the girl came to despair from a man's treachery, for whom she sacrificed to everyone. Ariadne remained to live on the island, was the priestess, and then she took her wife Dionysis - God of winemaking.

What does "Thread Ariadna" mean?

So, this expression applies in the "guide thread" value. In a broad sense, it means a means capable of helping to get out of a complex position, solve a confusing question or cope with the problem.

No wonder the telecast, designed to provide psychological assistance to people who have fallen into a difficult life situation and not seeing the exit, and is called "Thread Ariadna".

At the end of the 19th century on the island of Crete, the mined mine was opened. Found and excavated the Knos Palace-Labyrinth. It is symbolic that his discoverer - the British archaeologist Arthur Evans - said that he, as a guide thread, was sent in search and led the ancient Greek myths about Minotaur, Teshe and Ariadne.

History with thread Ariadne in art

Traveling thread Ariadna was reflected in art. Artists and poets and playwriters were given this story. The most "Vaks and Ariadne" Titian, "Ariadne wakes up and sees the selection ship of the Tereus" John William Waterhaus. From sculptural images, you should remember Ariadna from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

Valery Brysov's poem, written in 1902, is called "Ariadna Thread". The work with the same name is Vladimir Vysotsky. Peru Marina Tsvetaeva belongs to the play "Ariadna".

Love, self-denial, betrayal and guiding thread Ariadna - this plot will more than once will inspire people to create new masterpieces.