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Hippolytus (, Hippolytos) is an Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus, son of Theseus. The play was first produced for the City Dionysia of Athens in 428 BC and won first prize as part of a trilogy.
Euripides first treated the myth in a previous play, Hippolytos Kalyptomenos ( – Hippolytus Veiled), which is now lost; what is known of it is based on echoes found in other ancient writings. The earlier play, and the one that has survived are both titled Hippolytus, but in order to distinguish the two they have traditionally been given the names, Hippolytus Kalyptomenos (“Hippolytus veiled”) and Hippolytus Stephanophoros (“Hippolytus the wreath bearer”). It is thought that the contents to the missing Hippolytos Kalyptomenos portrayed a shamelessly lustful Phaedra who directly propositioned Hippolytus, which apparently offended the play's audience.
Euripides revisits the myth in Hippolytos Stephanophoros ( – "Hippolytus who wears a crown"), its title refers to the crown of garlands Hippolytus wears as a worshipper of Artemis. In this version Phaedra fights against her own sexual desires, which have been incited by Aphrodite.
thumb|The Death of Hippolytus, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912).
In Greek mythology, Hippolytus ( meaning "unleasher of horses") was a son of Theseus and either Antiope or Hippolyte. He was identified with the Roman forest god Virbius.
The most common legend regarding Hippolytus states that he was killed after rejecting the advances of Phaedra, his stepmother, the second wife of Theseus. Spurned, Phaedra deceived Theseus saying that his son had raped her. Theseus, furious, used one of the three wishes given to him by Poseidon to curse Hippolytus. Poseidon sent a sea-monster—or, alternatively, Dionysus sent a wild bull—to terrorize Hippolytus's horses, who dragged their rider to his death.
Versions of this story appear in Euripides' play Hippolytus, Seneca the Younger's play Phaedra, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Jean Racine's Phèdre.
Hippolytus or Hipolit was an early medieval archbishop of Gniezno. His place and date of birth date are unknown but the medieval historian Jan Długosz claims that he was of noble birth and a Roman citizen. Modern scholars generally agree that he was not Polish.
He was appointed Bishop between 18 April 1025 and 25 December 1025 in Gniezno Cathedral by Boleslaw I the Brave and was primate of Poland through the last part of Boleslaws reign and the beginning of Mieszko II Lambert's.
He died in 1027 and is buried in Gniezno Cathedral.
Usage examples of "hippolytus".
Is this the proud Hippolytus I see, Than whom there breathed no fiercer foe to love And to that yoke which Theseus has so oft Endured?
For Theseus, while Hippolytus his son Learns of his death from vessels that are now In port.
ACT II SCENE I ARICIA, ISMENE ARICIA Hippolytus request to see me here!
ARICIA Will Hippolytus, Think you, prove kinder than his sire, make light My chains, and pity my misfortunes?
Than this Hippolytus, for Hercules Yielded so often to the eyes of beauty, As to make triumph cheap.
PHAEDRA And I see Hippolytus, my ruin plainly written In his stern eyes.
Suffer Hippolytus to disappear For ever from the home that holds your wife.
You brought me back when I should else have quitted The light of day, made me forget my duty And see Hippolytus, till then avoided.
There used to be in the gallery of the Luxembourg a picture of Hippolytus and Phxdra, in which the beautiful young man, who had kindled a passion in the heart of his wicked stepmother, always reminded me of Willis, in spite of the shortcomings of the living face as compared with the ideal.
Hippolytus a iolly huntsman was,That wont in charet chace the foming Bore.
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