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HIPPOLYTUS BY EURIPIDES T ROZEN IS WHERE THE PLAY IS SET AND IT IS RULED OVER BY THESEUS as well as Athens because Thesus' grandfather governed Trozen before he died. Theseus had been sent Trozen because he had been exiled form Athens for a year due to the bloodguilt over the murder of his cousins (the sons of Pallas). Before this however, Theseus conquered the Amazons and took captive the Amazonian Queen Hippolyta and had a child with her, Hippolytus. Therefore, Hippolytus was illegitimate and a foreigner. This reinforces his role as an outsider in the play: he is different to the other Greeks. Theseus later married Phaedra who became Hippolytus' stepmother. Hippolytus is chaste and has therefore shunned the goddess Aphrodite and despises sexual acts and women and prefers hunting and worships greatly the goddess Artemis. The very fact that Hippolytus' mother was an Amazon could explain Hippolytus' strong dislike towards the opposite...

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