Phaedra

[fee-druh, fed-ruh]

Phae·dra

[fee-druh, fed-ruh]
noun Classical Mythology.
the wife of Theseus who fell in love with Hippolytus, her stepson, and eventually hanged herself after causing his death.
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Phaedra (ˈfiːdrə)
 
n
Greek myth the wife of Theseus, who falsely accused her stepson Hippolytus of raping her and then hanged herself because he spurned her amorous advances

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