Journal article
The irony of consolation in Euripides' plays and fragments
JHKO Chong-Gossard
Ramus | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | Published : 2016
DOI: 10.1017/rmu.2016.5
Abstract
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: