Ariadne (disambiguation)

Ariadne was a figure in Greek mythology.

Ariadne may also refer to:

Fictional characters

 * Ariadne Oliver, a fictional character in the novels of Agatha Christie
 * Ariadne the spider, a character in the British children's animated TV series Creepy Crawlies
 * Ariadne, a character in the film Inception
 * Ariadne, a character in the Korean manhwa Ares
 * Ariadne, a character from British TV series Atlantis

Other uses in arts and entertainment

 * Ariadne (EP), a 2004 extended play released by The Clientele
 * Ariadne (poem), a 1932 epic by F. L. Lucas
 * Ariadne auf Naxos, an opera by Richard Strauss
 * Ariadne musica, a collection of organ music by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
 * Sleeping Ariadne, a Roman sculpture in the Vatican Museums
 * Ariadne: A Social Art Network, a collaborative art group founded by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz-Starus
 * "Ariadne", an episode of the 2019 TV series Russian Doll

People

 * Ariadne (empress), a Byzantine Empress from the late 5th century
 * Ariadne of Phrygia, Christian saint
 * Ariadne Getty (born 1962), American philanthropist
 * Ariadne Welter (1930–1998), Mexican actress

Taxonomy

 * Ariadne (butterfly), a genus of nymphalid butterflies
 * Ariadne, a genus of flowering plants, synonym of Mazaea
 * Scinax ariadne, a species of frog endemic to Brazil

Other uses

 * Ariadne (archive), the department of the Austrian National Library devoted to women's and gender studies
 * Ariadne (psychedelic), a psychedelic drug
 * Ariadne, the name of several ships
 * Ariadne (software), an Educational Content Management System
 * Ariadne (web magazine), an Information Sciences journal published by Loughborough University
 * Ariadne's thread (logic), an algorithm in puzzle-solving
 * 43 Ariadne, the second-largest member of the Flora asteroid family
 * Ariadne, name in Greece for the January 2017 European cold wave
 * Ariadne (crater), a crater on Venus