 Ariadne betrayed her father and her country for her lover Theseus.She eloped with Theseus after he killed the Minotaur, yet according to Homer in the Odyssey "he had no joy of her, for ere that, Artemis slew her in seagirt Dia because of the witness of Dionysus" Most accounts claim that Theseus abandoned Ariadne, and in some versions Perseus mortally wounds her.According to some, Dionysus claimed Ariadne as wife, therefore causing Theseus to abandon her.