A rare two changes of speakers in one line of iambic verse occurs in this play when one character interrupts another by saying "Oh no!"
A rare two changes of speakers in one line of iambic verse occurs in this play when one character interrupts another by saying "Oh no!" The other replies, "Does this touch you?" A line in this play parodied by contemporaries is "My tongue is sworn, my mind unsworn." One character in this play reminds his father that he had promised him three curses. In a monologue, this play's protagonist says that men should be able to go to Zeus's temple and buy a child. This play opens with the monologue of a goddess who identifies herself as Cypris and explains her plan to punish the protagonist for (*) spurning her in favor of Artemis. At the end of this play, Poseidon heeds the plea of Theseus and sends a bull from the sea to frighten the horses pulling the title character's chariot, mortally wounding him. For 10 points, name this Euripides play in which Aphrodite makes Phaedra fall for her title misogynistic stepson.
A rare two changes of speakers in one line of iambic verse occurs in this play when one character interrupts another by saying "Oh no!"
Hippolytus