PHAEDRA


Meaning of PHAEDRA in English

n.

In Greek legend, the daughter of King Minos .

She became the second wife of Theseus after he abandoned her sister Ariadne . She later fell in love with her stepson Hippolytus; rejected, she accused him of rape. He was killed, and she hanged herself.

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