CLAS 1P97 Lecture 3: Euripides Week 3
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Euripides purposefully makes the madness sent from hera a release: (lyssa in. Phaedra, sister of ariadne: after the death of hippolyta theseus married phaedra who was much younger. Phaedra and hippolytus: phaedra propositions hippolytus, she kills herself and leaves a note for theseus accusing hippolytus of attempted rape. Death of hippolytus: theseus called down a curse from poseidon onto his son, a bull from the sea frightened his horses. Euripides" hippolytus: euripides sees hippolytus as a repressed young man he resists natural urges with disastrous results. She prefers a young man her own age to the older theseus. She knows this is socially wrong but loves hippolytus anyway: euripides is fascinated with psychology especially the struggle between natural urges and their repression in religion or society. New wives needed: theseus wants helen whom he and pirithous kidnap. 21 january 2014: she"s only about 12 years old so he leaves her with his mother aethra.