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The main reason given is that she killed herself, because she had fallen in love with Hippolytus, but he rejected her. She told Theseus (Hippolytus' father) that Hippolytus had raped her, and he gets cursed by Theseus, ultimately dying at his hand. Phaedra then kills herself in grief, not intending him to have been killed. Another version states that she does not kill herself (hence doesn't die in the myth) but instead Hippolytus is killed by Dionysus.

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