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Phaedra is Theseus' wife and Hippolytus' stepmother. She fell in love with a bull and gave birth to the Minotaur, she too becomes stricken with a "sinful" desire - a lust for Hippolytus.
Bien que les dieux n'apparaissent jamais en personne dans Phèdre, ils sont continuellement invoqués. Phèdre blâme Vénus et Apollon pour elle et les désirs impurs de sa mère; Neptune suit la directive de Thésée et tue Hippolyte, via un monstrueux...
Phaedra begins with a man setting out to hunt, and proceeds to examine various ways in which the notion of hunting might manifest itself within the walls of a city. Phaedra and her nurse seek to seduce Hippolytus, luring him to satisfy Phaedra’s...
