Phaedra (play)

Phaedra (play)

"Phaedra" is the name of three separate plays about the Greek mythological figure Phaedra:

*"Phaedra (Euripides)", by Euripides
*"Phaedra (Seneca)", by Seneca the Younger
*"Phèdre", by Jean Racine


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