... This is a story of unchecked passion between a man and a woman that has the potential to destroy both of their worlds. The story begins with Phaedra who is passionately attracted to her stepson Hippolytus. Although there were no blood relation between these two, there is something that is totally unacceptable and unnatural about the way that Phaedra feels about her stepson. This drive is so strong and totally consumes Phaedra. She is helpless and unable to stop these wretched emotions. As the Queen of Greece, there is much she could loose if these passions are found out so she struggles constantly to control these feelings. She is conflicted and she tortures herself because of the guilt she feels about these passions she has for her stepson. The story of Phaedra represents the evil that every human has carried since the beginning. In this story, Hippolytus has problems of his own; first of all, he has a father that has been an overpowering figure since his son’s birth. His father seems to be larger than life. A great warrior he is also known to be a “heroic womanizer” as he fight both human and non-human enemies (Douglas, et al., 2006, p. 160) In “The Divine Comedy” written by Dante, St. Augustine and Dido share a relationship that is not unlike Phaedra and Hippolytus. Passion is defined by Webster’s dictionary as the total and intense instance of sexual desire. There may or may not be love involved but the feelings are no less intense. In “The Divine Comedy, St. Augustine...
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...destructive force or femme fatale not only to herself but to men. She is the queen of Athens and is married to the King Theseus. Theseus has a son Hippolytus but it is not Phedres son and she finds herself falling for him. Since she cannot seem to control herself she creates her own world of chaos. Since she is acting the way she is it causes the King to have issues and he ends up sending away his own son. It was Phedras fault she was despising Hippolytus and was causing tension so Theseus sent him away. After Theseus banished his son Hippolytus it was told to Phedre that Theseus was killed. In her relief she had decided to not kill herself but to try and run off with her dead husbands son. She was going to try and put her own son on the throne and run away with Hippolytus. This plan all fails after it is learned that Theseus is actually alive. Phedre then thinks she needs to kill herself again but Oenone then comes up with the lie. Phedre had told Theseus that Hippolytus was in love with her. He didn’t want to believe her but Oenone her hand maid lied and told Theseus that she witnessed it. Hippolytus denies all accusations and confesses he’s in love with Aricia who is Theseus rival because she is the only living person sworn to take the throne from Theseus. Despite Hippolytus confessions Theseus doesn’t believe him and banishes him anyway. Hippolytus ends up being killed by the gods...
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...Ancient Greece The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, located on the Acropolis in Athens, is one of the most representative symbols of the culture and sophistication of the ancient Greeks. Part of a series on the | Modern Greece.Septinsular Republic.War of Independence.First Hellenic Republic.Kingdom of Greece.National Schism.Second Hellenic Republic.4th of August Regime.Axis occupation (collaborationist regime).Civil War.Military Junta.Third Hellenic Republic | History by topic.Art.Constitution.Economy.Military.Names | History of Greece | | Neolithic Greece.Neolithic Greece | Greek Bronze Age.Helladic.Cycladic.Minoan.Mycenaean | Ancient Greece.Homeric Greece.Archaic Greece.Classical Greece.Hellenistic Greece.Roman Greece | Medieval Greece.Byzantine Greece.Frankish and Latin states.Ottoman Greece | | Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BCto the end ofantiquity (c. 600 AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in ancient Greece is the period ofClassical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the repelling of a Persian invasion by Athenian leadership. Because of conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished fromCentral Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea. Classical Greek culture...
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