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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 341 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHAEDRA  , in

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Greek
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legend, daughter of
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Minos and Pasiphae . With her
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sister
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Ariadne she was carried off by
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Theseus to
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Athens, and became his wife . On the way to
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Eleusis she met
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Hippolytus, son of Theseus by a former wife (Hippolyte,
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queen of the
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Amazons, or her sister
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Antiope), and
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fell in love with him . Finding her advances rejected, she hanged herself, leaving behind a
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letter in which she accused Hippolytus of having made dishonourable proposals . The same
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story, in the
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main, is told of
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Bellerophon and Anteia . It formed the subject of tragedies by
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Sophocles,
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Euripides (two, one of which is extant),
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Seneca and
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Racine .

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