Phaedra

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In Greek mythology, Phaedra is the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë. She is also the wife of Theseus, the sister of Ariadne, and the mother of Demophon and Acamas.

Phaedra may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film

• Phaedra (film), a 1962 film by Jules Dassin based on the Phaedra myth
• Phaedra Cinema, a distributor of films in the USA of the late 20th century

Music

• Phaedra (album) (1974), by the electronic music group Tangerine Dream
  • Phaedra 2005, a later album by Tangerine Dream
• Phaedra (cantata), a cantata by Benjamin Britten based on the Phaedra myth
• Phaedra, a mysterious woman referred to in the song "Some Velvet Morning" sung by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
• Phaedra (opera), an opera by Hans Werner Henze based on the Phaedra myth
• Phaedra (Phèdre), a character in the opera Hippolytus and Aricia by Jean-Philippe Rameau
• Phaedra (CD label), an independent classical cd-label publishing Belgian and especially Flemish music

Plays

• Hippolytus (play), a play by Euripides based on the Phaedra myth
• Phaedra (Seneca) (sometimes known as Hippolytus), a play by Seneca the Younger based on the Phaedra myth and on Euripides' play Hippolytus
• Phèdre, a dramatic tragedy by Jean Racine first performed in 1677
• Phaedra's Love, a modern adaptation of Seneca's Phaedra by British playwright Sarah Kane first performed in 1996
• Phaedra (1962), English translation of Racine's work by Robert Lowell
• Phaedra Britannica (1975), Tony Harrison's version of Racine's work set in the British Raj

People

• Phaedra Parks, cast member on The Real Housewives of Atlanta
• Phaedra Nicolaidis, Australian actress

Science

• 174 Phaedra, an asteroid
• Phaedra, synonym of Bernardia, a plant genus
• Phaedra (butterfly), a butterfly genus

Further

• PHAIDRA (German spelling of Phaedra) is the acronym for Permanent Hosting, Archiving and Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets, the longterm archive of University of Vienna