title: Ariadne (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  