... terror", in accordance with Aristotle's requirements of tragedy. In summary, Phaedra, who is married to Theseus, is overcome with a forbidden love for her stepson Hippolytus. Upon hearing and believing the rumor of her husband's death, she is convinced by her nurse, Oenone, to finally admit to what is bothering her enough ... it becomes known that Theseus is in fact alive, and will be returning home shortly, Phaedra and Oenone scheme a lie to sway Theseus into believing that it was Hippolytus who attempted to seduce Phaedra, not vice-versa. Unfortunately, Theseus believes his second wife ...

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... wasthat the Greeks knew, in their hearts, that this was wrong. Indeed,their playwrights harangued them about it from the stage of Athenscontinually. All of the great Grecian playwrights -- Sophocles,Euripedes, Aristophenes -- dealt with the women's issue. All of themargued, in their various ways, that the women of Greece were not nearlyas incapable and weak as the culture believed them to ... ...

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