PHAEDRA

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PHAEDRA , in

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

legend, daughter of

Minos

MINOS

and Pasiphae. With her

sister

SISTER

Ariadne

ARIADNE (in
Greek
- GREEK
- GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND
mythology)

she was carried off by Theseus to Athens, and became his wife. On the way to Eleusis she met Hippolytus, son of Theseus by a former wife (Hippolyte, queen of the

Amazons

AMAZONS

, or her

sister

SISTER

Antiope), and fell in love with him. Finding her advances rejected, she hanged herself, leaving behind a

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also WRITING)
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

in which she accused Hippolytus of having made dishonourable proposals. The same story, in the

main

, is told of

Bellerophon

BELLEROPHON, or BELLEROPHONTES

and Anteia. It formed the subject of tragedies by Sophocles, Euripides (two, one of which is extant),

Seneca

SENECA

and Racine.

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