Ariadne (disambiguation)
# Ariadne (disambiguation)

Ariadne was a figure in Greek mythology.

Ariadne may also refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

### 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 (ship), 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
