named after a well-preserved painting of Phaedra and Hippolytus found on one of its walls. In Hippolytus, the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, Phaedra is the wife of a hero named Theseus ...

"Phaedra", recognized as the dramatist's greatest masterpiece, is the mythological re-telling of Theseus's wife's love towards his stepson, Hippolytus. The author, who drew largely from Euripides' ...

Greek myths are all over theatre stages at the moment, their fierce, vengeful stories offering unnerving parallels with ...

Jordan High School’s one-act play “Phaedra” competed in the subsection competition Jan. 27 at Delano. You can read more about the play and the competition in the Feb. 1 edition ...

Hippolytus was slain in Sardinia where he had been exiled for being elected as an antipope, the first in the history of the Church. He was reconciled to the Church before his martyrdom.

Britten’s Phaedra, text taken from Robert Lowell’s translation of Racine’s Phèdre (of which I seem to have five different texts and academic studies on my shelves—I’m glad to be prompted to seek them ...