Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

Phaedra

 

Phaedra, Roman tragedy by Seneca (2), based on the Hippolytus of Euripides with certain variations. Here it is Phaedra herself (not the nurse on her behalf) who declares her love to her stepson Hippolytus; she then in person (not in a posthumous letter) slanders him to Theseus; and finally it is she herself who discloses her guilt, before she dies (not the goddess Artemis after her suicide).

Search unanswered questions...
Enter a question here...
Search: All sources Community Q&A Reference topics
 
 
Learn More
Campbell, Avril Phaedra (Canadian lawyer and politician)
Phaedra (daughter of Pasiphaë and wife of Theseus)
Phaedra

Who was Phaedra? Read answer...
Is there a Plato Dialogue called Phaedra? Read answer...

Help us answer these
How is neoclassicism reflected in Phaedra?
Who was playwright that wrote Phaedra?
When was Racine's Phaedra published?

Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

 

Copyrights:

Classical Literature Companion. The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. Copyright © 1993, 2003 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.  Read more

 

Mentioned in