Phaedra

[fee-druh, fed-ruh]

noun Classical Mythology.

the wife of Theseus who fell in love with Hippolytus, her stepson, and eventually hanged herself after causing his death.

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Contemporary Examples of phaedra

Peaches had two young sons, Astala, 20 months, and Phaedra, 10 months, with her second husband, Thomas Cohen.
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Tom Sykes
May 1, 2014

Historical Examples of phaedra

Is Phaedra the only woman whom love has driven to write a lying letter?
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
Lucius Apuleius
She puts her venom in a magnificent beast, not a pathetic Phaedra.
The Tragic Comedians, Complete
George Meredith
You are fully decided to break faith with Phaedra, knowing what may come of it?
Diane of the Green Van
Leona Dalrymple
Phaedra suspects her plan and absolutely forbids her to speak with Hippolytus.
Authors of Greece
T. W. Lumb
He unpinned and flung aside the sheets as though to let Phaedra plead for herself.
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories
Willa Cather

British Dictionary definitions for phaedra

Phaedra

noun

Greek myth the wife of Theseus, who falsely accused her stepson Hippolytus of raping her and then hanged herself because he spurned her amorous advances

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