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  • noun A son of Hippolyta and Theseus who was killed by Poseidon.

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  • Theseus married Phaedra, but that was after the death of Antiope, by whom he had a son called Hippolytus, or, as Pindar writes,

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Christian authors such as Hippolytus of Rome, Tatian, Ps. - Justin Martyr, Gregory of Nyssa, and Theodoret also claimed that Aristotle believed the soul to be wholly mortal, and they all condemned him for it.

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • [338] Reading with Halm and Hercher [Greek: en tôi pollois philois chrêsthai.] [339] Euripides, "Hippolytus," 253-257, where Dindorf and Hercher agree in the reading.

    Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

  • On this occasion, he gained the third prize in the tragic contests, but the first, fourteen years after, and subsequently, with the "Hippolytus," in 428 B.C. The peculiar tendency of some of the ideas expressed in his plays, was the probable cause of the retirement of Euripides to Macedonia, where he obtained the friendship of

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • The last two lines are from Euripides, "Hippolytus,"

    Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

  • The writing of "Hippolytus" was accomplished under difficulties.

    Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

  • Mr. Yeats has written and talked and lectured on the subject; and the experiment has been tried in the performances of Mr. Gilbert Murray's translation of the "Hippolytus" of Euripides.

    Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905

  • The Greek was right, then -- the words of the "Hippolytus" as true to-day!

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Presently he read to them, Murray's "Hippolytus" of Euripides.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Presently he read to them, Murray's "Hippolytus" of Euripides.

    Saint's Progress John Galsworthy 1900

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