It was based on a play by Euripides and in turn inspired a full length opera by Jean Philip Rameau.
One character in this play says she is a "sad sport of a Bitter Fate that fed upon bitter tears by Night and Day" after noting she is an offspring of a royal race - "the Children of Earth." In its last act, one character reveals that another character's dying words were "The gods have robbed me of a guiltless life," and another character in that last act reveals to her nurse her plan, after which she dies from poison given to her by Medea. The main king in this play, who was imprisoned in Hades for six months, uses a bankrolled wish from Neptune to strike down his own son before Oenone is said to have drowned herself in the ocean. It was based on a play by Euripides and in turn inspired a full length opera by Jean Philip Rameau. At its end, we learn from Theramenes that it is the wish of the gods that Aricia be cared for. For 10 points, name this French play about Theseus's wife who loves her stepson Hippolytus, a work of Jean Racine.
One character in this play says she is a "sad sport of a Bitter Fate that fed upon bitter tears by Night and Day" after noting she is an offspring of a royal race - "the Children of Earth.
Phedre