Phaedra
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(taxon)
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).
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{{quote-book|en|year=1993|author=Albert S. Gérard|title=The Phaedra Syndrome: Of Shame and Guilt in Drama|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HXmG4cAGlugC&pg=PA20&dq=%22phaedra%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KmTXU87gCsLc8AWPIQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22phaedra%22&f=false|page=20
{{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood|title=Tragedy and Athenian Religion|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=l1XTiVZiIHYC&pg=PA331&dq=%22phaedra%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kXLXU9z9OpXr8AWp04D4Dg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22phaedra%22&f=false|page=331
(given name).
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