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There's a problem loading this menu right now. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. What becomes interesting in Euripides' telling of the tale is how Phaedra resists the will of Aphrodite, having resolved to starve herself to death rather than ever reveal her infatuation.

However, Phaedra's secret is revealed when in a state of semidelerium she confesses to her nurse. The nurse, out of love for Phaedra, tries to solicit an appropriate response from Hippolytus, who is horrified that his stepmother wants him as her lover. Mortified that her secret is now known, Phaedra hands herself, but trying to spare the reputation of her children she leaves a note accusing Hippolytus of having tried to rape her.

When Theseus returns from a long journey only to find his wife dead at her own hand and his son implicated in her suicide, he pronounces a deadly curse upon Hippolytus. Ironically, despite the tragic fate that awaits him, Hippolytus is not a sympathetic figure. Certainly his devotion to Artemis does not require him to spurn the ways of love and an Athenian audience would not look kindly upon him as a martyr to the idea of chastity.

Of course, this is a story by Euripides, which means readers have to look for another level of meaning.

In this regards "Hippolytus" is similar to "Medea. After all, Hippolytus is the bastard son of Theseus and the Queen of the Amazons. Consequently, it seems reasonable that Hippolytus has a real hatred for Aphrodite since it was the goddess of love who was responsible for the illegitimacy that makes him unlike other men. Meanwhile, Phaedra becomes the truly tragic character in the tale, who has her dignity taken away from her by a vengeful goddess and a friend with the best of intentions, surely as potent a combination of dangerous characters as you can find in literature.

Another consideration is the portrayal of Theseus, generally accounted the wisest and best of the heroes of classical mythology.

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Yet in this story the man whose objectivity and sense of fairness made him give Oedipus a resting place at least as the tale is told by Sophocles in "Oedipus at Colonus" gives way to an angry impulse worthy of Heracles. If we take into account how highly the Athenians esteemed Theseus, then "Hippolytus" again shows the frequent trend in Euripides' plays to attack the city-state in which he lived. It is this implicit critique of Theseus that Jean-Baptiste Racine makes more central to the tale in his Neo-Classical version of the story, "Phaedra.

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Peter Roth presents a bilingual version of Hippolytus with a new prose translation . The extensive commentary requires no prior knowledge of Greek, providing. Editorial Reviews. Review. "This is a good translation of a play our undergraduates can easily Look inside this book. Hippolytos (Griechische Dramen) (German Edition) by [Euripides]. Kindle App Ad.

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Hippolytus (son of Theseus)

Hippolytus swore that he would not reveal the nurse as a source of information — even after Phaedra killed herself and falsely accused him of raping her in a suicide note, which Theseus read. According to some sources, Hippolytus had scorned Aphrodite in order to become a devotee of Artemis, devoting himself to a chaste life in pursuit of hunting. As a result, a cult grew up around Hippolytus, associated with the cult of Aphrodite. His cult believed that Artemis asked Asclepius to resurrect the young man since he had vowed chastity to her. He was brought to Latium , Italy , where he reigned under the name of Virbius or Virbio.

After his resurrection, he married Aricia. According to another tradition, he lived in the sacred forests near Aricia in Latium. Girls who were about to be married offered locks of their hair to him as a sign of their virginity. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Hippolytus Greek mythology. This article needs additional citations for verification.