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' ...