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Phaedra mythology
Mythology surrounding Seneca's Phaedra
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Undergraduate 1
02/10/2009

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Phaedra
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Sister of Ariadne, Daughter of Minos, Wife of Theseus, Stepmother of Hippolytus
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Minos
Definition
Son of Europa and Zeus, and rules of Crete
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Europa
Definition
A Phoenician princess who was carried off by Jupiter in the form of a bull
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Rhadamanthys
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Minos' brother, who was also a powerful ruler of Crete
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Sarpedon
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Brother of Minos who was killed in the Iliad
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Pasiphae
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Mother of Minotaur, Phaedra, Ariadne.
She fell in love with the bull as a punishment because Minos hadn't sacrificed the correct bull.
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Persae
Definition
mother of Pasiphae
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Helios
Definition
Sun
Father of Pasiphae
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Aeetes
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Sister of Pasiphae. Mother of Medea
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Calypso
Definition
Sister of Pasiphae
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Circe
Definition
Sister of Pasiphae
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Ariadne
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Sister of Phaedra. She helped Theseus kill the Minotaur, and he took her away, but abandoned her. She later married Bacchus.
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Dia
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The name of the island Ariadne was abandoned on.
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Iacchus
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Name for Bacchus (who took Ariadne) used by Catullus.
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Daedalus
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Inventor under Minos. He made a cow-contraption so that Pasiphae could have a child with a bull. He also designed the labyrinth to imprison it, and wings to fly away.
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Icarus
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Daedalus' son who flew to close to the sun and drowned.
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Theseus
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King of Athens, who killed the Minotaur and married Phaedra (among other things).
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Aegeus
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Father of Theseus. Medea tried to kill Theseus when he returned to claim his heritage, but Aegeus saw his sword and stopped her.
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Hippolytus
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Son of Theseus and Antiope. He has renounced women and spends all his time hunting in the forest.
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Antiope
Definition
aka Hippolyta. An Amazon, and Hippolytus' mother.
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Sword
Definition
Identified Theseus when to Aegeus when Medea was about to kill him. Identified Theseus as having been with Phaedra shortly before she accuses him. Age-old phallic symbol.
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Aricia
Definition
In the Aeneid, she gets to marry Hippolytus after he's been brought back from the dead.
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Pirithous
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Theseus' friend who went to the underworld to abduct Proserpina.
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