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... > Classical Mythology and Ancient History > the Greek heroic legends (II) > the Greek heroic legends (II): heroines > the Greek heroic legends (II): heroines (with NAME) > (story of) Phaedra > love-affairs of Phaedra > Phaedra's unsuccessful love-affair with her stepson Hippolytus > Phaedra, in the temple of Venus, unobserved watches Hippolytus training in the gymnasium; possibly in frustrated passion she jabs the leaves of a nearby myrtle-tree with a hairpin

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95B(PHAEDRA)211Phaedra, in the temple of Venus, unobserved watches Hippolytus training in the gymnasium; possibly in frustrated passion she jabs the leaves of a nearby myrtle-tree with a hairpin  

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  • ancient history
  • classical antiquity
  • Greek legend
  • gymnastics
  • hairpin
  • heroic legend
  • heroine
  • Hippolytus
  • history
  • leaf
  • legend
  • mother
  • mother and son
  • myrtle
  • mythology
  • Phaedra
  • school
  • son
  • spying
  • stepmother
  • temple
  • training
  • Venus

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  • 95B(PHAEDRA)211

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