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Hippolytus: A Tragedy of Desire, Honour, and Divine Retribution
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617208539
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 12 2013
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A tragic drama of desire, honour, and divine retribution, exploring the destructive force of passion when set against rigid virtue.
In Hippolytus, Euripides presents a stark and psychologically complex tragedy centred on the conflict between human restraint and overwhelming desire. The play follows Hippolytus, a young man devoted to chastity and the worship of Artemis, whose rejection of sensual life provokes the wrath of Aphrodite. Through divine intervention, a chain of events is set in motion that leads to accusation, misunderstanding, and irreversible loss.
At the heart of the drama lies Phaedra, whose struggle between duty and forbidden passion is rendered with notable intensity. Euripides examines not only the nature of desire, but the consequences of suppressing or denying fundamental aspects of human experience. The tragedy unfolds through a sequence of moral and emotional tensions, where intention and outcome diverge with fatal precision.
Composed in the classical period of Athenian drama, Hippolytus remains one of Euripides' most studied works, notable for its psychological depth and its treatment of divine influence on human affairs. It continues to hold a central place in the study of Greek tragedy and the development of dramatic literature.
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