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What does Phaedra mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Phaedra? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (mythology) The wife of Theseus, who falls in love with but is spurned by her stepson Hippolytus, then commits suicide, but is the cause of his later death (details vary between versions).
  2. (rare) A female given name.
  3. (astronomy) The asteroid 174 Phaedra.
Name
  1. A female given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) The bright one. The wife of Theseus in Greek mythology.
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Phaedra suspects her plan and absolutely forbids her to speak with Hippolytus.
He unpinned and flung aside the sheets as though to let Phaedra plead for herself.
It was emblematic of a new state of society when Euripides created the Phaedra and the Medea.
A new classical company, Concentric Circles, kicks off with a revival of Racine's Phaedra.
Theseus then returns from the war and Phaedra, bent on self-preservation, denounces Hippolytus.
After the alleged death of her husband Theseus, Phaedra declares her love to Theseus' son Hippolytus, but he rejects her.

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