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If I Could Turn Back Time: Further Thoughts on Phaedra's Delirium in Euripides' Hippolytus (208–231)
- Classical World
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 115, Number 3, Spring 2022
- pp. 261-277
- 10.1353/clw.2022.0009
- Article
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Abstract
ABSTRACT:
Scholars generally agree that Phaedra's delirious desires to partake in activities associated with Hippolytus serve as an expression of her suppressed desire to "be with" her stepson. This study does not dispute this interpretation but rather it seeks to deepen our appreciation of the Phaedra Euripides has created by arguing that, in her delirium, she gives voice to a more involved three-fold desire, one that reveals the complexity of the situation in which a wife may find herself when seeking to fulfil the demands of both Aphrodite and Artemis in the absence of her husband.
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