... amongst them all. Phaedra's extreme passion causes her to betray her husband Theseus, the king of Athens. She is ashamed of her secret love of Hippolytus, the son of Theseus. This secret eats away at her until, eventually, she withers away to the point of near death. When Oenone asks ... she believes such betrayal deserves nothing more than death. Soon after Phaedra's confession of her incestuous love, she receives news that Theseus is dead. Because Hippolytus is the son of an Amazon woman, he will not be allowed to take the throne. Oenone convinces Phaedra that with Theseus out of the ...

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... spring and summer when he returned. Similar to Tammuz, Adonis was killed by a boar that was thought to be sent by Artemis who avenged Aphrodite for instigating the death of Hippolytus. When Adonis died in Aphrodite's arm, she turned his blood that fell into the soil into windflowers. She then begged Zeus to bring her lover back and Zeus agreed to ... ...

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