The name's the same: in Nella Larsen's novel Quicksand, it is the name of the black school where Helga Crane begins her teaching career.
The name's the same: in Nella Larsen's novel Quicksand, it is the name of the black school where Helga Crane begins her teaching career. In Greek mythology, it is the largest of the Cyclades islands, noted for being a center of worship for Dionysus.  It is also where Dionysus found his wife, after she had been abandoned there by Theseus.  FTP, give this name, the home of Ariadne in a one-act opera by Richard (REE-kard) Strauss, perhaps intended by Larsen as an ironic anagram of "Saxon."
The name's the same: in Nella Larsen's novel Quicksand, it is the name of the black school where Helga Crane begins her teaching career.
Naxos