Hippolytos

by Euripides

Book Overview

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195072901
• ISBN13: 9780195072907
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary