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Some myths say that he "forgot" her, others that Dionysus ordered him to do it. Some say that he wanted to marry her sister Phaedra more than her. Whatever the case, he abandoned her and married Phaedra, and Dionysus married Ariadne.

He dreamt that she would marry a god.

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