 Homer does not elaborate on the nature of Dionysus' accusation, yet the "Oxford Classical Dictionary" speculated that she was already married to him when she eloped with Theseus.In Hesiod and most other versions, Theseus abandoned Ariadne sleeping on Naxos, and Dionysus rediscovered and wedded her.In a few versions of the myth, Dionysus appeared to Theseus as they sailed from Crete, saying that he had chosen Ariadne as his wife and demanding that Theseus leave her on Naxos for him; this had the effect of absolving the Athenian cultural hero of desertion.