Phaedra

[ fee-druh, fed-ruh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Classical Mythology.

the wife of Theseus who fell in love with Hippolytus, her stepson, and eventually hanged herself after causing his death.

Phaedra

/ ˈfiːdrə /

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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You are fully decided to break faith with Phaedra, knowing what may come of it?

His step-mother Phaedra fell in love with him, and being rejected accused him to his father.

A secret malady under which Phaedra pines has so far baffled the Nurse who now learns that she loves her stepson.

Knowles, on the other hand, represents her as importunate with her love as a Phaedra, as consumed with passion as a Faustina.

Phaedra not only shrinks from breathing her secret to Hippolytus, but destroys herself when she learns that she is rejected.

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