person
Theseus
Athenian hero; here invoked both as 'Pasiphaë's son-in-law,' whose curse on Hippolytus the gods fulfilled, and as the slayer of the brigands Sinis, Sciron, Procrustes and Cercyon.
Reading notes
- Ibis §3 Pasiphaë's son-in-law
Theseus, husband of Phaedra (daughter of Pasiphaë); his curse on his son Hippolytus, fulfilled by Neptune, is the model of an answered prayer.