Journal article
THE IRONY OF CONSOLATION IN EURIPIDES' PLAYS AND FRAGMENTS
James H Kim On Chong-Gossard
RAMUS-CRITICAL STUDIES IN GREEK AND ROMAN LITERATURE | 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: