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- ↑ Mike Campbell. "Behind the Name: Meaning, origin and history of the name Ariana". Behind the Name.
- ↑ Homer, Odyssey 11.320, Hesiod, Theogony 947, and later authors.
- ↑ Pasiphaë is mentioned as Ariadne's mother in Bibliotheke 3.1.2 (Pasiphaë, daughter of the Sun), in Apollonius' Argonautica iii.997, and in Hyginus Fabulae , 224.
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