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Phaedra
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fee
-dr
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-r
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Phae·dra
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ˈfi
drə
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ˈfɛd
rə
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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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