Concept information
Preferred term
95B(PHAEDRA)21Phaedra's unsuccessful love-affair with her stepson Hippolytus
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- 95B(PHAEDRA)211 Phaedra, in the temple of Venus, unobserved watches Hippolytus training in the gymnasium; possibly in frustrated passion she jabs the leaves of a nearby myrtle-tree with a hairpin
- 95B(PHAEDRA)212 Phaedra sends, by her old nurse, a letter to Hippolytus, confessing her love
- 95B(PHAEDRA)213 when Hippolytus rejects her advances, Phaedra accuses him of offering her violence
Subject
- ancient history
- classical antiquity
- Greek legend
- heroic legend
- heroine
- Hippolytus
- history
- legend
- mother
- mother and son
- mythology
- Phaedra
- son
- stepmother
Notation
- 95B(PHAEDRA)21
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URI
http://iconclass.org/95B%28PHAEDRA%2921
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