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Hippolytus

By Euripides

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Book Id: WPLBN0002171553
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Reproduction Date: 11/5/2012

Title: Hippolytus  
Author: Euripides
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Language: English
Subject: Fiction, Fine Arts, Classics
Collections: Authors Community, Plays
Historic
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Publisher: A. S. Kline
Member Page: Tony Kline

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Euripides, B. (n.d.). Hippolytus. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/


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Hippolytos Stephanophoros "Hippolytus who wears a crown", is a reference to the crown of garlands Hippolytus wears as a worshiper of Artemis. In this version of Hippolytus, his stepmother Phaedra fights her sexual appetites for her stepson, only to hang herself and blame Hippolytus. The surviving play offers a much more even-handed and psychologically complex treatment of the characters than is commonly found in traditional retelling of myths.

 
 



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