(Photo credits: Stéphanie Kervel)
- Unfinished white marble nude woman at the entrance of Apollo‘s temple, in Naxos.
- According to Greek mythology, Theseus abandoned the princess Ariadne of Crete on Naxos after she helped him kill the Minotaur and escape from the Labyrinth.
- Naxos was an important center in Archaic Greece (800 BC–480 BC): it is the largest of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea.
Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera by Richard Strauss with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
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