Passion and Betrayal in Greek Myth, a Drama from Euripides Seneca wrote one version of this Greek myth, and Euripides wrote two. What was the attraction of the Hippolytus? Hippolytus Hippolytus was the son of Theseus by Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Raised in Athens alongside his father's legitimate children by the Cretan princess Phaedra (sister of Ariadne), he found himself the object of his stepmother's divinely-provoked love. The war of Aphrodite and Artemis Hippolytus, like his mother, was committed to chastity. He devoted himself to the virgin huntress Artemis, and refused to pay homage to Aphrodite, despite his tutor's warnings. Aphrodite, in resentment, made Phaedra, wife of Hippolytus' father, fall in love with her step-son. True to character, Hippolytus rejected her advances. In an attempt to save her character,...
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