Hippolytus (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Euripides
- First Published: 428
- Type of Work: Tragic Drama
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Love or romance, Suicide, Virginity or virgins, Kings, queens, or royalty, Gods or goddesses, Hunting or hunters, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Chastity
- Locales: Athens, ancient, Crete, ancient, Troezen, ancient
Phaedra, the young wife of the legendary Athenian king Theseus, falls passionately in love with her puritanical stepson, Hippolytus, and the ensuing conflict leads to the death of both parties, as well as to the emotional devastation of the king himself.
Aphrodite personally sets the plot in motion by formally announcing her intention to destroy Hippolytus as punishment for his sexual continence and for his inordinate devotion to the virginal goddess of the hunt, Artemis. Exercising her prerogatives as the goddess of love, Aphrodite causes Phaedra to become romantically obsessed...
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