Phaedra
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Theseus's wife, who fell in love with her stepson.
Sister of Ariadne and wife of Theseus, she fell in love with her stepson Hippolytus.
It was a passion Aphrodite planted in her, to punish Hippolytus for scorning the goddess.
Rejected, she wrote a lie in her suicide note and took her life — and Theseus, believing it, cursed Hippolytus to his death.
SourcesEuripides, Hippolytus