Aphrodite-symbol Of Like By Marina Venediktova 2021: Painting
In a single version of the story of Hippolytus, Aphrodite was the catalyst for his death. He scorned the worship of Aphrodite for Artemis and, in revenge, Aphrodite brought on his step-mother, Phaedra, to fall in really like with him, realizing Hippolytus would reject her. In the most well known version of the story, Phaedra seeks revenge against Hippolytus by killing herself and, in her suicide note, telling Theseus, her husband and Hippolytus’ father, that Hippolytus had raped her. Theseus…