Hippolytus Essays

Greek dramas and court cases. "Hippolytus" while its major theme focuses on impious behaviours, it is the mortals who seem to not focus on impiety. The only character in the drama to display a concern for the treatment of the gods is Hippolytus' servant, beyond that no one addresses the issue. During the climax of the conflict between Hippolytus and Theseus, Theseus is more concerned about Hippolytus' supposed crime of committing adultery against Phaedra. Hippolytus' punishment for rejecting the goddess

love for Hippolytus to her nurse. Phaedra knows that her love for Hippolytus can never be fulfilled and she feels shame for having this lust and passion for Hippolytus. Phaedra is very sneaky in how she tells her nurse, and never actually says his name as the man that she is in love with. “ Whom do you love?” “You know the son of the Amazon- the prince I’ve harshly used.” “Hippolytus! Great Gods! “Tis you have named him… Not I” (Racine 1.3.1472) After she confesses her love for Hippolytus, she curses

Despite the relative ease of a modern American’s life when compared literally any other point in history, there is a striking increase in anxiety over the past decade. In 1986, 14% of college freshmen reported anxious symptoms, but this past year it jumped to 41% (Denizet-Lewis). John Green, the author of Turtles All the Way Down, shares in this struggle and personally relates to the many young adults who suffer from this condition. This novel, despite many differences, holds a near autobiographical

In the story Generosity Thassa and Spock Thornell are characterizations of Aristotelian and Stoic ethics. These two dynamics clash after Spock attempts to rape Thassa. After the aforementioned rape, the power dynamic shifts from Spock to Thassa. As a result, Thassa wrongly distorts the Aristotelian concept of happiness and selflessness and allows for the continuation of Spock’s misguided Stoic suffering. For Aristotle, people may have different targets for happiness. Despite the different targets

introduced to the play, Hippolytus which discusses the tragic story of Hippolytus’ destruction due to the lack of worship to Aphrodite, the goddess of love. More specifically, the play discusses how Aphrodite punishes Hippolytus by having his stepmother, Phaedra, fall in love with him. The question stands, is Phaedra worthy of pity? Well, the answer is she is worthy of pity due to the fact that, in the context of the play, Aphrodite is the one to blame for her feelings for Hippolytus. Also, when Phaedra

In the Greek culture portrayed by the Tragedians, Men all must take responsibility for their actions as a given, to uphold their honor and to take actions that would benefit the society as a whole. Both authors of the plays Hippolytus (Euripides) and Antigone (Sophocles) show that women do indeed take responsibility for their actions just as men, however the actions of women, have a tenancy to have reasoning or motives that are emotion-based or traditional. Be there two systems of laws, those created

these Gods, instead of only choosing who they wanted to be loyal to. The story of Hippolytus by Euripides, is a greek myth that really shows the control the Gods had over the people of this time, and the reality that the people in this story had no power of their destinies because the Gods already decided it for them. The fates of these characters will always be inevitable with their Gods in the picture. Hippolytus

Virtuous Hippolytus initially seems like the perfect example of innocence and righteousness; his love and devotion to Artemis coupled with his piety makes him seem above reproach. However, as the story continues the audience gets a taste of his misogynistic mindset and how prideful he was of his devotion to the gods and his virginity. Though Hippolytus was misogynistic and arrogant, he was also forgiving and remained true to his word. On the surface the average reader may say he did not deserve his

The Heriodes is one of the works written by Ovid. This letter from Phaedra to Hippolytus appears to be an epistolary elegiac poem, considering the ultimate goal of Phaedra’s letter was to confess her love to Hippolytus and have him reciprocate those feelings. In the first eighteen lines of Phaedra to Hippolytus in the Heriodes, there is a profound introduction to the reader, who in this case would be Hippolytus. Phaedra does an impressive job during the first few lines of giving no details other

Mayes CLA 2000 23 November 2015 Phaedra and Hippolytus Phaedra is the wife of Theseus, given to him by Deucalion by order of Minos, the king of Crete. She is, however not his first wife according to Apollodorus. Theseus took his first wife from the Amazons who he attacked while adventuring with Heracles. Theseus kidnapped Hippolyte, who is also known by the names Antiope, and Melannipe, as well as her sisters. Hippolyte gives Theseus a son, named Hippolytus. (Apollodorus, p.91) After Theseus defends

Theseus the truth so she begs him to spare his son, Hippolytus. Phaedra shows guilt of the punishment Hippolytus will receive and is asking Theseus to save her from Hippolytus’s cries. Phaedra’s shame and guilt causes Hippolytus’s death. Phaedra uses the time that her husband Theseus is in the underworld to try and get Hippolytus to desire her,

allowing for the focus to be on the misdeeds rather than the perpetrator. Through this, the audience is forced to consider the vices and virtues of the play outside of traditional tropes of heroes and villains. Had Phaedra decided on her own to accuse Hippolytus, Phaedra would likely be seen as a story about an evil crazy lady rather than as a play about virtue. Contrarily, Phaedra cannot be completely innocent and must be

Phaedra from Hippolytus by Euripides and Medea from Medea by Euripides are sympathetic victims of the patriarchy. The women hold very little power and are representative of the dysfunction that can arise from a calculated, male-dominated society skewed by a disproportionate power struggle. From the start of both plays, Hippolytus and Medea, it is clear that both women are fated to be victims because their actions, though cruel, are simply reactions to the injustices they have been subject to and

Transitioning from the archaic period to the classical period there is a shift from the gods being the main characters of the plays, to being the overseeing forces that make events happen in humans lives. In Hippolytus and The Women of Trachis, Aphrodite and Zeus are seen as responsible for making sure humans meet their fate. Phoenician Women shows this concept in its purest form by solely having human characters and the gods being only conceptual. The characters in tragedies make sense of the terrible

There are numerous ancient Greek mythologies, which signifies the nature of Greek Gods and Goddesses. The purpose of these mythologies is to teach a lesson or used as an explanation to make sense of the impossible. They are also a great lesson to guide the human behaviour. The nature of Gods varies from one culture to the other. Gods, across all culture are often seen as the ultimate all powerful, all-knowing, divine, fair and kind figure. Unlike many other Gods, Greek Gods and Goddesses are unique

of myths. Myths were everywhere in society from coins, statues, wall paintings and mosaics but there was no defining narrative of any of the myths. The myths were often known by a single, memorable, often shocking detail, for example the death of Hippolytus as shown on the Greek red figure krater from Apulia. The dominant scene on the lower register

borne him, named Hippolytus. Hippolytus despised love, and he thought anyone who believed in it was foolish. To punish him, the goddess Aphrodite caused Phaedra to fall in love with him. When Hippolytus refused her, she killed herself. In a message she left behind, she lied to Theseus and claimed that Hippolytus had killed her. Theseus banishes Hippolytus, despite his son’s claims that he never laid a hand on Phaedra. By the time Theseus discovers the truth, it is too late. Hippolytus had been mortally

story of this horrible part of history and illustrates the subject's cruelty: the torture of the saint by the four horses. The right panel shows Decius with Roman emperor Valerianus. They are often mentioned in the stories referencing Saint Hippolytus. They are often seen mocking the saint and are shown as witnesses of the martyrdom of the saint after which both are said to have insane

Phaedra and Medea The women of Euripides are sympathetic victims of the patriarchy. From the start of both plays it is clear that Phaedra from Hippolytus and Medea from Medea by Euripides are both fated to be victims because their actions, though cruel, are simply reactions to the injustices they have been subject to and occur as a result of the lack of power among women and the subsequent actions of women that can arise from oppression. Both women cause severe pain to their husbands and children

The stories of Arachne, Hippolytus, and Odysseus consistently show the disastrous effects of defying social hierarchal norms like irreverence toward one’s superiors. The epic of Odysseus showcases the potential of reward after the dismissal of hubris and the reinstatement of devotion