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Iconclass-luokkakäsite: Phaedra's unsuccessful love-affair with her stepson Hippolytus
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| Iconclass-tunnus | 95 B (PHAEDRA) 21 |
| laajempi käsite | love-affairs of Phaedra |
| nimi | Phaedra's unsuccessful love-affair with her stepson Hippolytus |
| suppeampi käsite | Phaedra sends, by her old nurse, a letter to Hippolytus, confessing her love, Phaedra, in the temple of Venus, unobserved watches Hippolytus training in the gymnasium; possibly in frustrated passion she jabs the leaves of a nearby myrtle-tree with a hairpin, when Hippolytus rejects her advances, Phaedra accuses him of offering her violence |