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Idiom: ariadne’s thread

Definition:The Ariadne’s

thread means to point out where is right path.

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e 1• This book may serve the purpose of Ariadne's thread in respect to the complicated subject.

Ex sentenc

e 2• The drivers can always find a way back to their starting point, based on the Ariadne 's

thread of Google Map.

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e 3 Mark is a very competent manager who does not need anyone else’s Ariadne’s thread to solve the thorny problem.

Story• In Greek mythology, Ariadne is Cretan

princess, daughter of Crete King Minos. One day, the sea god Poseidon gave the king a beautiful white bull to do a tribute to the gods. However, Minos was so greedy that he

took the white bull for himself.

Story• Poseidon was very angry, he made the queen

of Minos, also Ariadne‘s mother, fell in love with the white bull. Later the queen gave birth to a monster with a head of a cow named Minotaur.

Story• Minos was ashamed and regretful, so he

invited the most famous architect Daedalus to build a huge maze Labyrinth to keep this

monster in a maze. Minos annually supplied seven pairs of boys and girls as a sacrifice to Minotaur, which made Crete residents living in

fear.

Story• A few years later, King Minos forced the

Athenians to tribute seven pairs of boys and girls as a sacrifice to Minotaur . The Athenians were living in fear. Theseus is prince of Athens, he was determined to remove the monster for the people, so automatic as a tribute to the island of Crete.

Story• Princess Ariadne loved the handsome Theseus

at first sight. She was determined to help him and gave him a ball of thread that enabled him to make his way out of the labyrinth after killing the Minotaur.

Story• When Theseus left Crete, Ariadne went with

him, but before they reached Greece, he abandoned her at Naxos because the god Dionysus consoled and married her later .

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• Minos's Queen also is Ariadne's mother fell in love with the white bull, and the Queen gave birth to a monster with a head of a cow named Minotaur.

Minotaur

Princess Ariadne loved the handsome Theseus at first sight. She was determined to help him and gave

him the skein of thread that enabled him to make his way out of the labyrinth

after killing the Minotaur.

Theseus killing the Minotaur

the god Dionysus married Ariadne

http://bee1955.blogspot.tw/2012/03/ariadnes-thread.html

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