Hippolytus (also known as Hippolytos) is an
Ancient Greek tragedy by
Euripides, based on the myth of
Hippolytus, son of
Theseus. The play was first produced for the
City Dionysia of
Athens in
428 BC and won first prize as part of a trilogy. Euripides first treated the myth in Hippolytos Kalyptomenos (Hippolytus Veiled), now lost. Scholars are virtually unanimous in believing that the contents to the missing Kalyptomenos portrayed a shamelessly lustful Phaedra who directly propositions Hippolytus, to the displeasure of the audience. This failure prompted Euripides to revisit the myth in Hippolytos Stephanophoros ("Hippolytus who wears a crown"), this time with a modest Phaedra who fights her sexual appetites. The surviving play offers a much more even-handed and psychologically complex treatment of the characters than is commonly found in traditional retelling of myths.
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