Euripides (480 or 485–406 B.C.). Hippolytus.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Dramatis Personæ
- The Goddess Aphrodite
- Theseus, King of Athens and Trozên
- Phædra, daughter of Minos, King of Crete, wife to Theseus
- Hippolytus, bastard son of Theseus and the Amazon Hippolyte
- The Nurse of Phaedra
- A Henchman of Hippolytus
- The Goddess Artemis
- An Old Huntsman
- A Chorus of Huntsmen
- Attendants on the Three Royal Persons
- A Chorus of Trozenian Women, with Their Leader
The scene is laid in Trozên. The play was first acted when Epameinon was Archon, Olympiad 87, year 4 (B.C. 429). Euripides was first, Iophon second, Ion third.