what are now called realism and romanticism, while marking his inferiority
to the chaste classicism of Sophocles, bring him more easily within the
sympathetic interest of the modern reader.



HIPPOLYTUS

OF EURIPIDES


DRAMATIS PERSONAE
THE GODDESS APHRODITE
THESEUS, _King of Athens and Trozen_
PHAEDRA, _daughter of Minos, King of Crete, wife to Theseus_
HIPPOLYTUS, _bastard son of Theseus and the Amazon Hippolyte_
THE NURSE OF PHAEDRA
A HENCHMAN OF HIPPOLYTUS
THE GODDESS ARTEMIS
AN OLD HUNTSMAN
A CHORUS OF HUNTSMEN
ATTENDANTS ON THE THREE ROYAL PERSONS
A CHORUS OF TROZENIAN WOMEN, WITH THEIR LEADER

_The scene is laid in Trozen. The play was first acted when Epameinon
was Archon, Olympiad 87, year 4 (B.C. 429). Euripides was first,
Iophon second, Ion third._


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