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Triune deity: as moon goddess, epithet: phoebe bright , shining, lunar cycle, menstrual cycle, identified with. Hecate: cold, white, chaste, chthonian deity, descendant of titans, goddess of crossroads, trivia: meeting place of three roads, something magical can happen at crossroads, associated with ghosts and underworld, black magic, fertility deity. Artemis vs. aphrodite: the hippolytus of euripides, euripides gives us most classical plays, 17 still survive, hippolytus. Chaste young man: vows to never have sex, ever. Despises aphrodite: aphrodite causes step mother, phaedra, to fall for him (hippolytus) Phaedra confesses: nurse gets phaedra to reveal feelings to hippolytus, hippolytus is implored to have sex with his mother. Hippolytus rejects phaedra: phaedra commits suicide, only noble way out , leaves note, false claim of rape, blames. Theseus finds wife dead, note accusing own son. Hippolytus father: theseus: curses son, hippolytus killed. Bull from the sea (poseidon), hippolytus caught up in the bulls.

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