History Theatre / Hippolytus

* AcquittedTooLate: Artemis appears to Theseus to clear Hippolytus' name only ''after'' he's been mortally wounded by one of Hippolytus' ThreeWishes.

%%* BreakTheHaughty

%%* CharacterTitle

%%* DarkSecret: Naturally, it comes out.

%%* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Nurse.

%%* GreekChorus
%%* HeroicBastard: Hippolytus.

%%* JerkassGods

%%* LoveAtFirstSight

%%* LoveHurts: So much.

%%* MaliciousSlander

%%* SecondhandStorytelling
%%* SpurnedIntoSuicide: [[spoiler: Again, Phaedra]].

%%* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Phaedra]].

* CelibateHero: Aversion to sexuality is the crux of Hippolytus' character. It could even be considered his fatal flaw. Likely owing in part to his own [[ChildByRape illegimate heritage]], Hippolytus despises women and sex, pledging himself wholly to [[{{Asexual}} Artemis]] to the point of actively disdaining [[LoveGoddess Aphrodite]]. Aphrodite does not mind Hippolytus preferring Artemis, but she punishes him for looking at her with scorn.

* YourCheatingHeart: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Phaedra's nurse as a possibility: Phaedra ''could'' get together with Hippolytus. What's so bad about cheating anyway? Everyone else is doing it, after all! (Even the gods.) Ultimately [[AvertedTrope averted]], however.

* CelibateHero: Aversion to sexuality is the crux of Hippolytus' character. It could even be considered his fatal flaw. Likely owing in part to his own [[ChildByRape illegimate heritage]], Hippolytus despises women and sex, pledging himself wholly to [[{{Asexual}} Artemis]] to the point where he offends [[LoveGoddess Aphrodite]] by doing so.

''Hippolytus'' is a tragedy by Creator/{{Euripides}} which won first prize at Athens' City Dionysia festival in 428 BC. The play retells the myth of the son of Theseus: Hippolytus, who has earned the emnitity of the goddess Aphrodite for [[CelibateHero refusing to worship her]].

* HeManWomanHater: Hippolytus, as proved by his somewhat hysterical speech to Phaedra and the Nurse about the evils of women, including the gem that men should pay for babies at temples and thus eliminate the need for women after all. His favored patron deity Artemis is a goddess however, so it's not ''all'' women he hates.

* DownerEnding: Phaedra commits suicide out of shame, but before doing so writes a suicide note convincing Theseus to kill his own son over false accusations of rape. Then, after the dirty deed is done, [[DeusExMachina Artemis appears]] [[WhatTheHellHero but only to tell Theseus how badly he screwed up]] and inform the audience that [[Cycle she's about to take out her revenge on one of Aphrodite's worshipers]].

%%* AcquittedTooLate

* BeingGoodSucks: Hippolytus refuses to sleep with his stepmother, at least in part, out of an appeal to basic human decency and respect for his father (the other part being [[HeManWomanHater because he doesn't like women so much]]). When his stepmother then falsely accuses him of raping her, he's helpless to [[ClearMyName defend himself]] before his father [[IGaveMyWord because of an oath he swore]]

%%* DownerEnding: Unsurprisingly.

%%* CelibateHero: Again, Hippolytus.

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* HeManWomanHater: Hippolytus, as proved by his somewhat hysterical speech to Phaedra and the Nurse about the evils of women, including the gem that men should pay for babies at temples and thus eliminate the need for women after all.
** His favored patron deity Artemis is a goddess however, so it's not ''all'' women he hates.

''Hippolytus'' is a tragedy by {{Euripides}} which won first prize at Athens' City Dionysia festival in 428 BC. The play retells the myth of the son of Theseus: Hippolytus, who has earned the emnitity of the goddess Aphrodite for [[CelibateHero refusing to worship her]].

* HeManWomanHater: Hippolytus, as proved by his somewhat hysterical speech to Phaedra and the Nurse about the evils of women, including the gem that men should pay for babies at temples and thus eliminate the need for women after all. [[FridgeLogic But who would then bring up those babies, hmm?]]

* Jerkass: Hippolytus. For many readers, it's terribly difficult to muster up any sympathy for him during the first half of the play.

* [[spoiler: OffingTheOffspring]]: Theseus, when he wishes for [[spoiler: the death of Hippolytus]].

* AcquittedTooLate

* BreakTheHaughty
* CelibateHero: Again, Hippolytus.
* CharacterTitle

* DarkSecret: Naturally, it comes out.

* DownerEnding: Unsurprisingly.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Phaedra]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Nurse.

* GreekChorus
* HeroicBastard: Hippolytus.

* JerkassGods

* LoveAtFirstSight

* LoveHurts: So much.

* MaliciousSlander

* SecondhandStorytelling
* SpurnedIntoSuicide: [[spoiler: Again, Phaedra]].

* {{Tragedy}}
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness

* YouDoNOTWantToKnow

* {{Asexual}}: A possible interpretation of Hippolytus.

* DeusExMachina: Artemis arrives via the crane and reveals the truth [[spoiler: to Theseus: that Phaedra lied in her note, and Hippolytus was innocent]].

* FatalFlaw: Hippolytus has plenty of other flaws, but the one which drives the tragedy is his refusal to worship Aphrodite.

->'''Nurse:''' τί φῄς; ἐρᾷς, ὦ τέκνον; ἀνθρώπων τίνος; [[hottip:*:What are you saying? Are you in love, child? With what man?]]
->'''Phaedra:''' ὅστις ποθ᾽ οὗτός ἐσθ᾽, ὁ τῆς Ἀμαζόνος... [[hottip:*:Whoever he might be, the son of the Amazon...]]
->'''Nurse:''' Ἱππόλυτον αὐδᾷς; [[hottip:*:You speak of Hippolytus?]]
->'''Phaedra:''' σοῦ τάδ᾽, οὐκ ἐμοῦ κλύεις. [[hottip:*:You heard that from yourself, not from me.]]
-->--Euripides, ''Hippolytus'', Lines 350-353

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "No god who uses the night to work her wonders finds favour with me!"

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "No god who uses the night to work her wonders finds favour with me!" One edition of the play describes this line as "superb" but "insane". Darn right there. It's on the order of being a character in the Old Testament and flicking the Vs at God, but boy, is it a great comeback.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "No god who uses the night to work her wonders finds favour with
me!" One edition of the play describes this line outright as "superb" but "insane". It's on the order of being a character in the Old Testament and flicking the Vs at God, but boy, is it a great comeback.