Phaedra

Reading notes

• The Art of Love §1.15 Phaedra

  Sister of Ariadne and wife of Theseus, who loved her unkempt stepson Hippolytus.

• The Heroides §4 The Cretan girl

  Phaedra, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae and wife of Theseus; the speaker, who writes confessing forbidden love for her stepson.

• The Heroides §4 Phaedra

  The speaker names herself; by her judgment Hippolytus's stern face is not grim but manly.

• The Festivals §6.21 Phaedra

  Wife of Theseus whose false accusation doomed her stepson Hippolytus.

• Metamorphoses §15.498 Pasiphaë's daughter

  Phaedra, daughter of Pasiphaë and wife of Theseus, who falsely accused Hippolytus.

• The Cure for Love §2 Phaedra

  Daughter of Minos and wife of Theseus, consumed by love for her stepson Hippolytus.

• The Cure for Love §23 the Cnossian girl

  Phaedra, the Cretan (Cnossian) princess whose ruinous passion for her stepson Hippolytus was fed by wealth and leisure.