Hippolytus

American  

[hi-pol-i-tuhs] / hɪˈpɒl ɪ təs /

noun

1. Classical Mythology.  Also Hippolytos the son of Theseus who was falsely accused by his stepmother, Phaedra, of raping her after he had rejected her advances and who was killed by Poseidon in response to the plea of Theseus.

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Hippolytus British  

/ hɪˈpɒlɪtəs /

noun

1. Greek myth a son of Theseus, killed after his stepmother Phaedra falsely accused him of raping her

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Other Word Forms

• Hippolytan adjective

Example Sentences

Euripides, whom Aristotle called “the most tragic of the poets,” returns to the figure of the grief-stricken parent in “Hecuba,” “Hippolytus” and “The Bacchae,” to cite just a few disparate examples of characters brought to their knees by the death of their child.

From Los Angeles Times

Theseus in “Hippolytus” and Agave in “The Bacchae” both have reason to feel that they have blood on their hands.

From Los Angeles Times

In “Hippolyte,” his first opera but written when he was already a musical star, he stuck to the traditional French prologue-and-five-acts structure to tell the mythical story of King Theseus; his wife, Phaedra; and her catastrophic love for her stepson, Hippolytus, as told by Euripides, Seneca and Racine.

From New York Times

In these first lines, you can detect some of the supple historical intelligence of Ryszard Kapuscinski, who could make you feel like any corner of Poland or Iran was unraveling in just the same fashion as Cicero’s Rome or Hippolytus’ Athens. As recently as 1947, Shacochis writes, the life expectancy in Nepal is a “prehistoric” 24 years old.

From Los Angeles Times

The theme is the classical story of Phaedra, the queen who falls passionately for her stepson Hippolytus – as told by Euripides, Seneca and most famously Racine.

From The Guardian