Hippolytus

By Euripides

Book Id: WPLBN0002171553
Format Type: PDF eBook:
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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
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Publisher:	A. S. Kline

Member Page:	Tony Kline
Citation APA MLA Chicago Euripides, B. (n.d.). Hippolytus. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
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.