The text of the actual play, which is called hippolytus in greek. Adapted from hippolytus by euripides, it tells the story of phaedra and her taboo love for her stepson, hippolytus, although with a much more sensual and shameless phaedra than in euripides greek original. Phaedra, modeled after the original greek tale and euripides version of it titled hippolytus, is no exception, and the title characters confession of her love to hippolytus betrays an impossible desire to do away with family ties. Apr 10, 2017 hippolytus, translated by john studley in seneca, his tenne tragedies, translated into engly.
The play tells the story of theseus wife phaedra and her lust for her stepson, hippolytus. Phaedra or hippolytus by seneca the younger is a latin adaptation of euripides hippolytus. Robin mitchellboyask a website detailing some of the common tropes in popular culture that can be found in euripides hippolytus. Based on greek mythology and the tragedy hippolytus by greek playwright euripides, seneca s phaedra is one of several artistic explorations of this tragic. Seneca, however, did not choose to follow the tamer and more famous version of the myth underlying euripides revised second hippolytus but, for whatever reason, reverted to the plot line followed in euripides other first hippolytus in which the lustful. Specters of medea the rhetoric of stepmotherhood and. Whereas in euripides phaedra is the victim of loves passion and ungainly hold. Aphrodite wide oer man my realm extends, and proud the name that i, the goddess cypris, bear, both in heavens courts and mongst all those who dwell within the limits of the sea and the bounds of atlas, beholding the sungods light. Hippolytus is a very pure young man who spends most of his time hunting and sacrifices to artemis, the virgin goddess. I can easily understand seneca s enormous influence on subsequent drama. The internet classics archive hippolytus by euripides. Dating from perhaps earlier on in the chronology of seneca s tragedies, the phaedra combines two storytelling motifs. The original myth, on which all subsequent works are based, tells the story of hippolytus, the bastard. When phaedras passion was revealed to him, he reacted with such revulsion that she killed herself, leaving a note accusing hippolytus of having tried to rape her.
Aphrodite hippolytus servant chorus nurse phaedra theseus messenger artemis aphrodite enters above the skene. Hippolytus study guide contains a biography of euripides, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Phedre, a dramatic tragedy by jean racine first performed in 1677. Phaedra 1962 jules dassin directs his wife, melina mercouri, and rising star, anthony perkins, in margarita lymberakis adaptation of euripides hippolytus, with a stunning film score by mikis theodorakis, in simmering black and white cinematography by jacques natteau.
A similarity between the two presentations is that of the hunt. The french playwright racine was inspired by this play to write phaedra. It seems that both depict yet another story in which an innocent woman is cursed for a mans betrayal of a god. It seems likely that it was meant instead purely for recitation, as would befit its emphasis on long speeches, its small cast of characters, and its relative brevity when. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of phaedra by seneca. Nov 08, 2016 created using powtoon free sign up at create animated videos and animated presentations for free. When confronted by phaedras desire, euripides hippolytus retreats to a. It is not clear whether phaedra was ever performed on stage in senecas time. Alternatively, dionysus sent a wild bull that terrified hippolytus horses, causing them to drag hippolytus to his death. Adapted from hippolytus by euripides, it tells the story of phaedra and her taboo love for her stepson, hippolytus, although with a much more sensual and shameless phaedra than in euripides. The character of phaidra in hippolytus from litcharts.
Phaedra feedrah is a good deal younger than theseus. The character of phaidra in hippolytus from litcharts the creators of sparknotes. Euripides phaedra prays to artemis and longs to join the hunt and away to the mountain take me. Euripides phaedra cannot live with her feeling for. Euripides hippolytus study guide department of greek.
Perhaps, too, you may meet with some things in it that will be agreeable. Written by euripides, the play hippolytus won a performance contest as part of a trilogy in athens in 428 bce. Both plays tell the story of phaedra, the wife of king theseus and her passion for her stepson hippolytus. In the view of greek mythology and the tragedy hippolytus by greek dramatist euripides, senecas phaedra is one of several aesthetic explorations of this adverse story. Theseus queen, phaedra, fell in love with hippolytus. Deserted by her lord, the hapless phaedra has conceived a hopeless passion for hippolytus. Phaedra has been the subject of many notable works in art, literature, music and film. Click download or read online button to get seneca phaedra book now. Phaedra is a roman tragedy with greek subject of c. In the play, hippolytus, phaedra, and theseus are all living together in troizen, near athens. Seneca s portrays the action more directly than euripides, relying less on intermediaries and letters at key plot points.
In purely dramatic terms, senecas phaedra has nothing close to the resonance of euripides hippolytus. Click download or read online button to get euripides hippolytus and seneca s phaedra book now. In the view of greek mythology and the tragedy hippolytus by greek dramatist euripides, seneca s phaedra is one of several aesthetic explorations of this adverse story. Phaedra seneca phaedra is a roman tragedy with greek subject of c. Indeed, much can be understood about the evolution of drama through a comparative study of euripides hippolytus, seneca s phaedra and racines phedre. Phaedra sometimes known as hippolytus is a tragedy by the roman playwright seneca the younger, written around 50 ce. While readers of euripides hippolytus have long regarded phaedra s deltos as a mechanism of punitive revenge, i argue here that the tablet models itself on a judicial curse defixio and that its main function is to ensure victory for phaedra in the upcoming trial over her reputation.
This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. His surviving work includes ten tragedy plays, nine of which are based on mythological themes. The story of hippolytus and phaedra as recounted by. Describe one way that racines phaedra is different from euripides s hippolytus. Before the play begins, a sexual desire for hippolytus has taken hold of her, inspired by aphrodite. It is the tale of phaedra, wife of king theseus of athens, and her forbidden obsession with her stepson hippolytus. Seneca s tragedy phaedra, also called hippolytus, is based on the play hippolytus by euripides. Receptionhereisnotalinearact,norachainthatbuildslinkby. Download pdf euripides hippolytus and seneca s phaedra. In support of my thesis i examine three interrelated phenomena. Phaedra observes the supposed rules of classical drama, but is only loosely modelled on plays by euripides and seneca.
The play is part of a larger commentary and myth sequence based on hippolytus, and many stories focusing on phaedra herself. The confrontation between the prig hippolytus and his possessed stepmother phaedra is astounding. I reread seneca s phaedra for the first time in almost forty years. Senecas tragedy phaedra, also called hippolytus, is based on the play hippolytus by euripides. In seneca s play, phaedra confesses her love to hippolytus, while in euripides s version, the nurse tells him. A useful introduction to the themes and content of seneca s play. An excellent novelization of the story of phaedra, for teenagers. Hippolytus by euripides the whole tragedy in a music for words. The first canonical rereading of euripides tragedy was phaedra by the imperial roman tragedian seneca ca. Both the roman playwright, seneca, and his greek counterpart, euripides have interpreted the tale of hippolytus and phaedra and the curses that were bestowed upon them.
Theseus has also gone back to crete again and married ariadnes little sister, phaedra no more is ever heard from ariadne. Metaphors drawn from our experience as embodied beings in the world with a particular physiology, a particular physical orientation, beings who are at home in particular natural and social environments are fundamental in making things that might. Phaedra sometimes known as hippolytus, a play by seneca the younger based on the phaedra myth and on euripides play hippolytus. If hippolytus were only a shadowy figure, phaedra s love would be incomprehensible, and the tragic dimensions of a great passion would be reduced to mere wantonness. Racines phaedra is a neoclassical french play from the 17th century 1677.
Based on greek mythology and the tragedy hippolytus by greek playwright euripides, seneca s phaedra is one of several artistic explorations of this tragic story. In euripides hippolytus, phaedra is a sympathetic character cursed by aphrodite because of hippolytus refusal to worship aphrodite while in seneca s phaedra the tragedy results from phaedra s extreme emotions and destructive actions. Hippolytus wakes her, then asks why she is so ill at ease. This close reading of senecas most influential tragedy explores the question of how. Phaedra, is a play by philosopher and dramatist lucius annaeus seneca, which tells the story of phaedra, wife of king theseus of athens, and her consuming lust for her stepson, hippolytus. Most critics including aristophanes agree that phaedra and not hippolytus is the principal character in this play. Phaedra and hippolytus download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Some scholars argue that it is unfair to measure seneca exclusively by a standard of dramatic literature since he was foremost a philosopher and rhetorician. Euripides oxford readings in classical studies, by judith mossman 2003. Created using powtoon free sign up at create animated videos and animated presentations for free. Their names mean horsey ones, people who have something to do with horses. Ovidius naso, the epistles of ovid, phaedra to hippolytus. Medea, hippolytus, heracles, bacchae, written by legendary author euripides, is widely considered to be among the greatest classic texts of all time. Versions by seneca the younger phaedra, ovid metamorphoses and heroides, and the much later jean racine phedre all contribute to our understanding of.
At that moment, phaedra appears, and swiftly collapses in a swoon. Click download or read online button to get phaedra and hippolytus book now. Doc mind, metaphor, and emotion in euripides hippolytus. Hippolytus euripides translated by david kovacs aphrodite hippolytus servant chorus nurse phaedra theseus messenger artemis aphrodite enters above the skene. Aphrodite 1 mighty and of high renown, among mortals and in heaven alike, i am called the goddess aphrodite. Phaedra seneca the younger ancient rome classical literature. Phaedra seneca wikisource, the free online library. Phaedra with attendant, probably her nurse, a fresco from pompeii circa 6020 bc. Euripides hippolytus, senecas phaedra, andor racines phedre provides a unique mechanism within which to explore such questions.
He is not at all interested in girls, and he is proud of. Married to theseus, who had kidnapped her after abandoning her sister ariadne ariadne had fallen in love with theseus and therefore helped him survive the minotaur by providing him a sword, phaedra fell in love with hippolytus, theseuss son by another woman born to either hippolyta, queen of the amazons, or antiope, her sister. The chief difference between the two texts is phaedra, who herself is spared by seneca until after hippolytus death, thus allowing her revelation of his innocence to be all the more. Seneca the younger, phaedra theoi classical texts library. Pdf download phaedra and hippolytus free ebooks pdf. However, senecas phaedra denounces hippolytus on stage and in person seneca, phaedra 881903. The play was first produced for the city dionysia of athens in 428 bc and won first prize as part of a trilogy. Hippolytus euripides ancient greece classical literature. To the legend as treated by euripides, racine added the love of hippolytus for aricia, and thus supplied a motive for phaedra s jealousy, and at the same time he made the nurse instead of phaedra the calumniator of his son to theseus.
Phaedra married king theseus of athens and gave him two sons. Specters of medea the rhetoric of stepmotherhood and motherhood in seneca s phaedra. It is based on the myth of hippolytus, son of theseus, and how a series of misunderstandings and the meddling of the gods result in his death and that of his stepmother, phaedra. Please listen to me from hippolytus and phaedra by ernie. Phaedra, is a play by roman philosopher lucius annaeus seneca, which recounts the tale of of phaedra, the queen of athens, wife of theseus, and her overwhelming lust for her stepson, hippolytus. Since he refused her, and her passion for him became known, she hanged herself, leaving a letter in which she charged her stepson of having assaulted her.
Click here to read about euripides surviving play entitled hippolytus garlanded. Theseus, refusing to believe hippolytus protestations of innocence, banished him and called. In the view of greek mythology and the tragedy hippolytus by greek dramatist euripides, seneca s phaedra is one of several aesthetic explorations of. Nov 24, 2019 we notice that racines phaedra, like euripides, displays high moral dignity because she considers her passion for hippolytus to be abominable. Seneca s phaedra is actually remarkably similar to euripides hippolytus, although he concludes his tragedy far more viciously, and with more obvious violence. Only senecas thyestes lacks an extant precedent with which to compare it, although it was a favorite subject of greek and. Phaedra is a fabula crepidata, or a roman tragedy about greek subjects, told in verse by roman dramatist lucius annaeus seneca. In his absence, queen phaedra fights a guilty passion for her stepson, hippolytus, and he nurses a secret love for aricia, a princess of athenian enemy blood, to whom.
Senecas phaedra was modeled on euripides hippolytus, which told roughly the same story. A website that provides background to the myths behind euripides hippolytus and to general themes in the play. The play was first produced for the city dionysia of athens in 428 bc and won first prize as part of a trilogy euripides first treated the myth in a previous play, hippolytos kalyptomenos. Euripides hippolytus and seneca s phaedra download ebook. Hippolytus roundly rejects the idea, proclaiming that nature is where man is at his most free and innocent and that womankind is the cause of much evil. Phaedras love, a modern adaptation of senecas phaedra by british playwright sarah kane first performed in 1996. Of shame and guilt in drama, page 20, why did seneca decide to postpone his own phaedras suicide until after hippolytus death. This thesis will look at ways in which three source texts collectively have been reworked and reimagined in various receptiontraditions. It is believed that euripides first treated the myth in a play called hippolytos kalyptomenos hippolytus veiled, now lost, in which he portrayed a shamelessly lustful phaedra who directly propositioned hippolytus on stage, much to the displeasure of the athenian audience. The epistles of ovid, translated into english prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the latin and english languages will allow. The mythical phaedra lusts for her stepson hippolytus in violation of both her. Hippolytus and the related sense of guilt, concerned as she is with the good reputation issue.
The story of phaedra and hippolytus is told, in somewhat different versions, by euripides play hippolytus and seneca the youngers play phaedra. Dec 11, 2015 phaedra, is a play by roman philosopher lucius annaeus seneca, which recounts the tale of of phaedra, the queen of athens, wife of theseus, and her overwhelming lust for her stepson, hippolytus. These great classics will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. Finally, in both euripides and kane it is the queen. Medea, the heroine who is the subject of another euripides play, is her ancestor. Phd thesis open research online the open university. Adapted from hippolytus by euripides, it tells the story of phaedra and her taboo love for her stepson, hippolytus, although with a much more. Each multiform has a few distinct differences that impacts the meaning of the myth as whole. Click download or read online button to euripides hippolytus and seneca s phaedra book pdf for free now. Furthermore, it asks serious and disturbing questions about the influence of divinity on human lives. The central theme of her story revolves around her infatuation with hippolytus. Hippolytos is a tragedy by the ancient greek playwright euripides, first produced at the athens city dionysia in 428 bce, where it won first prize as part of a trilogy. For other englishlanguage translations of this work, see phaedra seneca.
Seneca uses no deus ex machina, unless the appearance of hercules at the end of. While readers of euripides hippolytus have long regarded phaedra s deltos as a mechanism of punitive revenge, i argue here that the tablet models itself on a judicial curse defixio and that its main function is to ensure victory for phaedra in the. You may wish to read tony klines translation of this play into english hereand senecas phaedra translated by f. This was the model for nicola pisanos work on the pisa baptistery in the midthirteenth century. The veiled hippolytus and phaedra 399 euripides first play, or at least not eliminate the possibility that even in the first play it was not phaedra but the nurse who approached the stubborn young man7. Euripides hippolytus and seneca s phaedra download euripides hippolytus and seneca s phaedra ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. The story of hippolytus and phaedra as recounted by euripides. It is also possible that phaedra did not even propose to hippolytus explicitly. Seneca the younger was a latin playwright and philosopher who flourished in rome in the late c1st a. The son is named hippolytus, but hippolyta has died. Seneca phaedra download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Pdf fragments from phaedras diary a creative translation of. Euripides hippolytus, senecas phaedra, andorracines phedre providesaunique mechanism within which to explore such questions. Seneca, euripides, ovid the story of hippolytus, a man wronged and killed by his own stepmother is a myth retold by many different writers.
In a sense phaedra is the commander in ovids poem and hippolytus the victim. Seneca s portrays the action more directly than euripides, relying less. Phaedra is a tragic play by roman playwright seneca. Pdf staging in the central scene of the hippolytus authors is mu phedre,phaedra seneca pdf,racine phedre english translation pdf,phaedra act 3,phaedra monologue,seneca phaedra full text,critical analysis of phaedra,phedre racine resume, phaedra mythology,phedre jean racine,phaedra seneca,phaedra,phaedra film,phaedra the movie,phaedra imdb,phaedraparks instagram, phaedra then swears the.
Nowhere but in greek tragedy does the notion of family ties continually ring with so much foreboding. The story of hippolytus and phaedra as recounted by euripides, seneca and racine. Second century roman sarcophagus of beatrice of lorraine in the camposanto in pisa. Phaedra, is a fabula crepidata roman tragedy with greek subject of c. Though it follows much the same plot as euripides original it is more sympathetic to phaedra, shifting the blame for the accusation of hippolytus more on to the nurse and allowing her a chance to explain herself to theseus.
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