Unlike Hippolytus, Theseus was a devotee of Aphrodite, and a builder of bonds, relations, between alien entities: As Heracles was the Dor...

Phaedra and Nurse, Pompei Interwoven motifs in the Hippolytus suggest great care on Euripides' part. Take, for example, this ex...

In this figure from Tanagra , Aphrodite is amusing Eros: Figurine of Aphrodite Playing with Eros Tanagra Late 4th century BC Terr...

εἰ δ᾽ ὁ καιρὸς ἦν σαφής , οὐκ ἂν δύ᾽ ἤστην ταὔτ᾽ ἔχοντε γράμματα . "If propriety ( kairos ) were more clear,"...

As we begin Euripides' Hippolytus , I'll be putting occasional notes here, some strictly philological in nature, others as seems f...