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In the later years of his life Theseus married Ariadne’s sister Phaedra, and thereby drew down terrible misfortunes on her and on himself and on his son Hippolytus, the son the Amazon had borne him.

He had sent Hippolytus away while still a young child to be brought up in the southern city where Theseus had spent his own youth.

As Theseus listened, overwhelmed by this sum of terrible events, Hippolytus still breathing was carried in.

I have followed Apollodorus on the whole, but I have added from Euripides the stories of the appeal of Adrastus, the madness of Hercules, and the fate of Hippolytus; from Sophocles his kindness to Oedipus; from Plutarch the story of his death, to which Apollodorus gives only a sentence.

She was angry at Hippolytus and determined to punish him to the utmost.