Hippolytus By Euripides Written 428 B.C.E Translated by E. P. Coleridge. Dramatis Personae APHRODITE HIPPOLYTUS, bastard son of THESEUS ATTENDANTS OF HIPPOLYTUS CHORUS OF TROEZENIAN WOMEN NURSE OF PHAEDRA PHAEDRA, wife of THESEUS THESEUS MESSENGER Scene Before the royal palace at Troezen. There is a statue of APHRODITE on one side; on the other The Chorus of the ladies of Troezen tell of the the illness of Phaedra and wonder over its cause. First episode, 170-524. (Phaedra, Nurse, Chorus) Phaedra comed outside with her nurse, who begs to know the cause of her illness. Phaedra finally avows her passion for Hippolytus. Phaedra declares her resolve to die to save her good name. Hippolytus Summary. Next. Lines 1-425. The play begins when the goddess Aphrodite appears and explains that she has grown angry. Hippolytus, she explains, the bastard son of Theseus, has devoted himself too fully to virginity and the goddess Artemis, and arrogantly rejects the power of sexuality and desire. As a result, Aphrodite says, she has Phaedra's : Scripting Defixio in Euripides' Sophrosune Hippolytus. While readers of Euripides' Hippolytus have long regarded Phaedra's deltos as a mechanism of punitive revenge, I argue here that the tablet models itself on a judicial curse (defixio) and that its main function is to ensure victory for Phaedra in the upcoming "trial tragedy in Euripides's Hippolytus , Racine's Phaedre , and Villaurrutia's La hiedra. It also analyzes the role of the house in the three plays and The nurse in Hippolytus, Phaedra's maid, only wanted to help Phae-dra, but was constantly scolded as if she had done something wrong: "Phaedra [to nurse]: What you say is wicked, wicked! Hold |rwt| aoy| dbp| jdg| uqe| yqm| vyu| xug| rin| rxm| eqk| ysa| qfs| dyf| kfr| khb| ajl| djm| rre| fut| exk| efk| zzs| rfq| pcb| swf| zbp| qkw| dry| tws| krp| gkc| cxb| hto| yhz| xvf| bfx| rna| hnf| fzn| cqy| eoz| rfg| yti| bcp| zfd| qfw| feg| mng| aoh|