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Looking at Hippolytus
Picturing the Myth
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If you were to plan your own painting of the myth, what would be in it?
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Now for some real paintings…
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Let’s look first at role and characterisation…
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How are the interactions between the characters
represented in the following post-classical
images?
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Hippolytus and Phaedra
Artist: Pierre-Narcisse Guerin
Completion Date: 1802
Dimensions: 39 x 52 cm
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Phaedra
Artist: Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889)
Date: 1880
Size: 194cm x 286cm
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The Death of Hippolytus
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
1860
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Hippolytus, Phaedra and Theseus
Unknown artist, German school
18th century
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Hippolytus after the Confession of his Stepmother Phaedra
Étienne-Barthélémy Garnier,
late 18th century
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Now let’s go back to some classical images…
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Herculaneum wall paintingMid-first century CE.
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Sarcophagus of Phaedra and Hippolytus
Roman Sarcophagus with relief In the Archaeological Museum, Split, Croatia.
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The Lovesick Phaedra
http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/K32.5.html
DETAILS
Museum CollectionBritish Museum, London
Catalogue No.London 1870,0710.2
Beazley Archive No. N/A
WareApulian Red Figure
Shape Krater, Calyx
PainterAttributed to the Laodamia Painter
Dateca. 350 - 340 B.C.
Period Late Classical
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The Queriandiptych5th century CE.
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Why do people continually remake the myth of Hippolytus and Phaedra?
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http://edithorial.blogspot.com/2015/05/why-i-hate-myth-of-phaedra-and.html
From Edith Hall at The Edithorial
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https://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/mike-nichols-on-the-graduate
Director Mike Nichols on The Graduate
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Donna Zuckerberg in her new book
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What is your own view of the myth? A compelling story of human emotion, or disturbing blame game?