Greek Tragedy XX: Euripides’s Hippolytus, or Aphrodite Has a Curl Right in the Middle of Her Forehead

Posted byTriumvir ClioPosted inGreek Tragedy, The Greeks

When Aphrodite is good, she is very very good, but when she is bad, she is horrid.

Discussion Prompts
  1. AP Credit: Why does Phaedra long for the mountains, the meadows, the clear streams, etc.?
  2. What do you think of the nurse? Good? Bad? Somewhere in between? Why?
  3. Hippolytus’s mother is an Amazon, yet he is a terribly misogynist. Why do you think that is?
  4. If you were directing this play today, where and when would you set it? Why?
  5. What does this play tell us about the role of the gods in our lives?

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I have a BA in History and Classical Civilization from Loyola University Chicago and an MPH from Western Michigan University. I've been a geometry teacher, a religion teacher, a writing tutor. I'm a writer, a knitter, a dancer, a singer, an actor. And, yes, for fun I like to reread everything that was assigned while getting my classics degree.

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