CLAS 430 Lecture Notes - Aphrodite, Coryphaeus, Euripides
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Classics 210: greek & roman classics in english. But those whose pride is stiff-necked against me i lay by the heels aphrodite foreshadowing. Aphrodite (goddess of love & beauty sensual) angry with hippolytus (son to. Theseus) for rejecting her makes phaedra (hippolytus" step-mother, wife to. Novel opens with hippolytus and his friends singing praises to artemis (goddess of the hunt virginal. ) They call her most beautiful of all that live in olympus . A servant of hippolytus warns hippolytus about snuffing aphrodite, cautioning that there may be dire consequences if he continues. Hippolytus leaves; the servant prays to aphrodite stating that he has no part in rejecting her. The chorus describes the fate of a woman who is sick though no one, not even her servants, know what ails her. The chorus gives various explanations such as an affair with another woman or hectate"s madness. The nurse comes to care for phaedra, who is restlessly tossing to-and-fro.
