Hippolytos Cara Silva Detailed introduction to each book

Detailed introduction to each book

Published: 02/27/2011

When her grandmother and mother raised her strong

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Hippolytos Cara Silva Detailed introduction to each bookIn most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a woman reduced to shamelessness by the power of Aphrodite. In Euripides' Hippolytos, however informed by the playwright's moral and religious fascination we find a Phaidra resisting the goddess of love with all her strength, though in the end unsuccessfully. Phaidra becomes a tragic foil for Hippolytos, making his superhuman virtue at once believable and