The daughter of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae, making her a princess of Crete. Minos's palace in Knossos is sometimes referred to as the 'dancing ground of Ariadne.' When Theseus came to Crete to kill the Minotaur, Ariadne fell in love with him and gave him a ball of twine to help him navigate the Labyrinth. Ariadne and Theseus left Crete together, but he later abandoned her on the island of Naxos where she was saved by Dionysus, whom she married. Her wedding diadem was placed in the heavens as the constellation Corona Borealis.