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Hippolytus (Ancient Greek: Ἱππόλυτος, Hippolytos) is an Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus, son of Theseus. The play

Aphrodite is recounted by the playwright Euripides. Other versions of the story have also survived. The meaning of Hippolytus' name is ironically ambiguous. Ἱππό

the god to kill Hippolytus, which he did. Phaedra then committed suicide. The story of Phaedra is told in Euripides' play Hippolytus, Seneca the Younger's

Hippolytus may refer to: Hippolytus (mythology), several figures from Greek mythology, including: Hippolytus of Athens, the son of Theseus Hippolytus

Euripides (/jʊəˈrɪpɪdiːz/; Ancient Greek: Eὐριπίδης, romanized: Eurīpídēs, pronounced [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]; c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of

conclusion to a play. One such example can be seen with Euripides' play, Hippolytus. In the play, Hippolytus is cursed with an untimely death by his father, Theseus

rejected her out of chastity. Alternatively, in Euripides's version, Hippolytus, Phaedra's nurse told Hippolytus of her mistress's love and he swore he would

escape; so Euripides's apparent invention of the filicide might have offended, as his first treatment of the Hippolytus myth did. That Euripides and others

scholia in Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 4.1399. Scholiast on Euripides, Hippolytus 742 (Cavarezan, p. 288) [= Pherecydes fr. 16d Fowler (p. 286) =

Aristophanes and Menander, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Roman adaptations of Plautus, Terence and Seneca. In total, there