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Theseus, great hero of Attic legend, son of Aegeus, king of Athens, and Aethra, daughter of Pittheus, king of Troezen (in Argolis ), or of the sea god, Poseidon, and Aethra. Legend relates that Aegeus, being childless, was allowed by Pittheus to have a child (Theseus) by Aethra. When Theseus reached manhood, Aethra sent him to Athens.
Phaedra and Hippolytus recounts the two different versions of the unnatural love of Phaedra for her stepson Hippolytus - as told by Ancient authors.
Jan 27, 2020 · Phaedra was a Cretan princess and an Athenian queen in the tales of Greek mythology. Phaedra is today most famous for being the wife of Theseus, and for her death, although in the ancient sources many different variations of the life of Phaedra are told.
Jun 11, 2018 · Phaedra. In Greek mythology, Phaedra was the daughter of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae of Crete and the younger sister of Ariadne. Phaedra married Theseus, king of Athens and slayer of the beast known as the Minotaur. Earlier, Ariadne had helped him kill the Minotaur and escape from Crete.
Quick Reference. AT: Hippolytus A: Lucius Annaeus Seneca W: ad 25–65 Tr: 1566 G: Latin trag. in 5 acts; verse S: The palace of Theseus in Athens, in the mythical past C: 3m, 2f, chorus (m), extrasWhile Theseus, King of Athens, is away on an adventure, his wife confesses to her Nurse that she lusts after her stepson, the chaste hunter Hippolytus.
In mythology, Fedra (from Greek φαιδρός (phaidros), "bright") is the daughter of Minos (king of Crete) and Pasiphae (daughter of Helios), a well-known oracle, sister of Ariadne, Deucalion and Catreu. Deucalion, king of Crete, as successor to her older brother Catreu, decides that she will marry Theseus (king of Athens), who, according to ...
In Greek mythology, Phaedra was the daughter of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae of Crete and the younger sister of Ariadne. Phaedra married Theseus, king of Athens and slayer of the beast known as the Minotaur. Earlier, Ariadne had helped him kill the Minotaur and escape from Crete.
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