 Conversely, Stylianos Alexiou has argued that despite the belief being that Ariadne's name is of Indo-European origin, it's actually pre-Greek.Linguist Robert S. P. Beekes has also supported Ariadne having a pre-Greek origin; specifically being Minoan from Crete.This being due to her name containing the sequence "dn" (δν), which is rare in Indo-European languages, indicating that it's a Minoan loanword.