Hippolytos
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780195017403 (0195017404)
Publish date: November 22nd 1973
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 120
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Greece,
Ancient,
Tragedy,
Mythology
Never take hasty decisions Never judge too fast For the consequences may be Greater than you can bear. Tarnished by pride, Hippolytus dares to defy Aphrodite. He refuses to show due respect to her, so she obtains revenge. She uses his father’s wife to bring him to his doom, and in this ordeal, ma...
I should mention that technically this play should come under 'I' as opposed to 'H' (and I almost put it under 'I' without thinking) namely because Greek does not actually have an 'H'. What they have are rough and smooth breathings, which is a little symbol that appears at the front of a word that b...