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The demigod Theseus having won the love of Ariadne, daughter of the king of Crete, deserted her on the isle of Naxoa. In Miss Bremer's H Family, the blind girl is described as singing "Ariadne a Naxos," in which Ariadne is represented as following Theseus, climbing a high rock to watch his departing vessel, and calling upon him in her despairing anguish.