House of the Vettii hand and holds a chisel in his left, placed against the wooden beam. The final mythological scene in the north triclinium is Dionysus discovering Ariadne on the south wall. The scene of Dionysis discovering Ariadne was a popular theme in Greek vase paining. It depicts the moment Dionysus discovers Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos and Pasiphae. After being abandoned by Theseus, the slayer of the Minotaur, Dionysus finds her sleeping on the island of Naxos and weds her. In this scene Ariadne lays on a large leopard skin, with her back to the viewer. She wears gold armlets and
The Hero with a Thousand Faces from the introduction to "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", Campbell summarizes the monomyth: In laying out the monomyth, Campbell describes a number of stages or steps along this journey. "The hero's journey" begins in the "ordinary world". He must depart from the "ordinary world", when he receives a "call to adventure". With the help of a "mentor", the hero will cross a "guarded threshold", leading him to a supernatural world, where familiar laws and order do not apply. There, the hero will embark on a "road of trial"s, where he is tested along the way. The archetypal hero is