Hippolytus

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.4 Hippolytus

  The chaste youth who spurned all women; set among dancing girls, even he would turn into lustful Priapus.

• The Art of Love §1.10 Hippolytus

  Chaste son of Theseus, destroyed by frightened horses after his stepmother Phaedra's false accusation.

• The Heroides §4 the Amazon's son

  Hippolytus, son of Theseus and an Amazon queen, a chaste devotee of Diana and the hunt; the letter's addressee.

• The Heroides §4 Theseus' son

  Hippolytus, captor of Phaedra's heart as Theseus was of Ariadne's — the 'double trophy' from Crete's royal house.

• The Heroides §21 Hippolytus

  The chaste devotee of Diana; Cydippe says the goddess scarcely favored even him as fiercely as she now favors Acontius.

• The Festivals §5.2 Hippolytus

  The chaste youth, devoted to Diana and scornful of Venus (Dione), torn apart by his own horses.

• The Festivals §6.21 Hippolytus

  The chaste youth killed by his bolting horses and restored to life by Aesculapius as Virbius.

• The Festivals §6.21 Virbius

  The name of Hippolytus after his resurrection, the minor god of Diana's grove at Aricia.

• Ibis §12 your great-grandson, Saturn

  Hippolytus, descendant of Saturn through Pelops, killed by his frightened horses and raised again by Asclepius.

• Ibis §18 grandson of Aethra

  Hippolytus, grandson of Aethra, killed through Venus' anger when his horses, panicked by a sea-bull, dragged him to death.

• Metamorphoses §15.497 son of Theseus

  Hippolytus, restored to life as Virbius, who consoles Egeria.

• Metamorphoses §15.498 one Hippolytus

  Son of Theseus, falsely accused by his stepmother and killed, later revived as Virbius.

• Metamorphoses §15.501 the son of the Amazon

  Hippolytus, son of Theseus and the Amazon Hippolyte.

• The Cure for Love §23 your grandson

  Hippolytus, grandson of Neptune, killed when a sea-bull panicked his horses — the disaster set in motion by Phaedra's love.

• Sorrows §2.1 Hippolytus

  The chaste youth destroyed by his stepmother Phaedra's love; Ovid's first example that tragedy too turns on love.