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THE IRONY OF CONSOLATION IN EURIPIDES' PLAYS AND FRAGMENTS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 May 2016
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At the mid-point of Euripides' Hippolytus, Theseus arrives to find that his wife Phaedra has hanged herself, for a reason yet unknown. As he laments over his wife's corpse, the chorus of Troezenian women offers apparently standard consolation:
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