1. Hippolytus and Phaedra

2. Hippolytus was the son of Theseus (picture here)

3. Hippolytus’ step mother, Phaedra, was made to love him by Aphrodite, whom Hippolytus did not worship.

4. Whenever she reveals her love to her nurse, the nurse quickly evades her and tells Hippolytus. Phaedra learns of this however, and when Hippolytus confronts her, she commits suicide

5. When Phaedra died, however, she was holding a note stating that all this was the fault of Hippolytus. Theseus finds this and, infuriated, uses one of his wishes granted by Poseidon to doom Hippolytus.

6. Hippolytus, too generous to admit the truth about Phaedra, accepts his fate. He later dies after Poseidon sends sea-creatures to scare his horses, which drag him into rocks and kill him.

7. Picture of Hippolytus’ death

8. Thus ends the sad story of Hippolytus and Phaedra.