Jean Racine (1639–1699). Phædra.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Characters
- T
HESEUS, son of Ægeus and King of Athens. - P
HÆDRA, wife of Theseus and Daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë. - H
IPPOLYTUS, son of Theseus and Antiope, Queen of the Amazons. - A
RICIA, Princess of the Blood Royal of Athens. - Œ
NONE, nurse of Phædra. - T
HERAMENES, tutor of Hippolytus. - I
SMENE, bosom friend of Aricia. - P
ANOPE, waiting-woman of Phædra. - G
UARDS - The scene is laid at Trœzen, a town of the Peloponnesus.