She Ventures and He Wins almost as much intrigue as the play itself. The name "Ariadne" is pseudonym modeled after the Greek goddess. Ariadne, the Greek goddess, is the daughter of King Minos of Crete and the wife of Dionysus. While already married to Dionysus, Ariadne fell in love with Theseus who help her by promising to take her to Athens as his wife. She gave him two special gifts, a sword and a clue of thread, to find a way back from the Cnossian Labyrinth after killing the Minotaur. She give Theseus the information that he needs to defeat the Minotaur. Ariadne is seen
Seduction of the Minotaur the doctor allows himself to be shot because he is loved only as a doctor and never as a man, perhaps patterned after her understanding of Otto Rank's death. The title refers to the Freudian concept of a "monster" in the subconscious confined by a "labyrinth". Since one should not kill one's own mind, the repressed feelings must be "seduced" by developing conscious insight. An earlier version was published in 1958 with the title "Solar Barque", after a ship found in an Egyptian pyramid. Seduction of the Minotaur Seduction of the Minotaur is an autobiographical novel by the mixed nationality