Hippolytos
Euripides / Bagg, Robert![Hippolytos](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/226/22684076/CHSBZCOP0322684076.jpg)
In most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a woman reduced to shamelessness by the power of Aphrodite. In Euripides' Hippolytos, however--informed by the playwright's moral and religious fascination--we find a Phaidra resisting the goddess of love with all her strength, though in the end unsuccessfully. Phaidra becomes a tragic foil for Hippolytos, making his superhuman virtue at once believ...