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Hippolytus

Euripides

Form
Form Play
Year
Year 428 BCE
Originally in
Originally in Ancient greek
Pages
Pages 90

Aphrodite comes on first and tells you exactly what she means to do. Hippolytus keeps himself pure for Artemis and holds Aphrodite cheapest of all the gods, so she has already put the love in his stepmother, and everything after is the machinery running.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Hippolytus, Euripides

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