person
Hippolytus
also: Hippolyto, Hippolyti, Hippolytus
Son of Theseus, falsely accused by Phaedra and destroyed when Theseus used one of Neptune's three granted wishes to curse him. Cicero cites his death as proof that some promises are better left unfulfilled.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §4.27 hatred of women is defined, as in Hippolytus
Hippolytus, the chaste youth of myth and of Euripides' tragedy, who scorned women and the love of Venus. Cicero cites him as the type of the aversion 'hatred of women.'