The book follows her from childhood to her untimely and tragic death at the hands of Perseus, focusing in particular on her marriage to the god Dionysus. Like the other books listed here, Ariadne gives a voice to one of the ancient world’s most famous princesses, the daughter of King Minos of Crete and the woman who aided Theseus in his navigation of the Labyrinth and slaying of the Minotaur. Though it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when this phenomenon emerged or who is responsible, I would posit that the huge success of Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles is as good a place to start as any, and since that book hit shelves in 2011 we’ve seen a whole clutch of similar retellings, including Miller’s sophomore effort, Circe, Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls (2018), Natalie Haynes’ The Children of Jocasta (2017) and A Thousand Ships (2019) and, most recently, Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne. It really does seem like we’re living in a golden age for a retelling of the myths of antiquity.
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