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Hippolytus

Hippolytus

Coleridge, Edward Philip
Euripides

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1537030345
ISBN13: 9781537030340
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 20 2016
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Euripides is known in literature & fiction circles as a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Euripides is one of the few whose dramas & plays have survived. Ancient & medieval scholars have attributed 95 dramas & plays to Euripides, of which 19 are known to have survived more or less complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama & plays down to modern times. He was unique among the writers of ancient & medieval Athens for the sympathy he demonstrated towards all victims of society, including women. Hippolytus is a Greek tragedy which is set in Troezen, a coastal town in the northeastern Peloponnese. Theseus, the king of Athens, is serving a year's voluntary exile after having murdered a local king and his sons. His illegitimate son Hippolytus, whose birth is the result of Theseus's rape of Amazon Hippolyta. Hippolytus has been trained since childhood by the king of Troezen, Pittheus. Aphrodite, Goddess of love, explains that Hippolytus has sworn chastity and refuses to revere her. Instead, he honors the Goddess of the hunt, Artemis. This has led her to initiate a plan of vengeance on Hippolytus.

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