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Hippolytus

Euripides

Gilbert Murray (1902)

First performed in Athens in 428 BCE, Euripides's Hippolytus won first prize at the City Dionysia — one of the few of his plays to do so. Queen Phaedra, afflicted by Aphrodite, falls into forbidden love with her chaste stepson Hippolytus, and her false accusation destroys him. The play is a searching study of desire, shame, and the cruelty of the gods, surviving in a revised version cleaner than the lost original.

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1. Hippolytus