Hippolytus (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Euripides
- First Published: 428
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: Antiquity
- 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
Places Discussed
*Troezen. Greek city, on the eastern coast of the Peloponnesian Peninsula, that is home of the Athenian king Theseus and his new wife Phaedra. The play’s action is set largely in and around their royal palace. In ancient times, aristocratic Greek women tended to be kept indoors, and in the play the interior of the palace is associated with Phaedra’s incestuous desire for her stepson Hippolytus, which she tries to conceal. After her secret is revealed, Phaedra hangs herself in her bedroom. The palace is a location of containment and repression whose walls...
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Euripides (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Euripides (Drama)Euripides (Encyclopedia of the Ancient World)
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