Phaedra Greek Daughter of Minos of Crete and of Pasiphaë; sister of Ariadne and Androgeus; wife of Theseus, king of Athens.
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Phaedra Greek Daughter of Minos of Crete and of Pasiphaë; sister of Ariadne and Androgeus; wife of Theseus, king of Athens. The love goddess Aphrodite caused Phaedra to fall in love with her chaste young stepson, Hippolytus. The youth fled from her in horror and Phaedra killed herself, leaving a letter to her husband accusing Hippolytus of trying to violate her. Theseus then caused the death of his son. This episode, where Theseus lost both his wife and his son, seemed to mark the end of his heroic life.
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- Pasiphaë Greek Daughter of Helios (the Sun); wife of Minos, king of Crete; mother with Minos of Ariadne, Androgeus, and Phaedra.
- Pala medes Greek Son of Nauplius, a king of Euboea, and his wife Clymene, a granddaughter of King Minos of Crete.
- Ino Greek Daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia; sister of Agave, Antonoë, and Semele; wife of Athamas.
- Iphicles Greek Halfbrother of the hero Heracles; son of Amphitryon, a prince of Tiryns, and his wife, Alcmene, who was a daughter of the king of Mycenae; husband to Automedusa, and later, to the youngest daughter of King Creon of Thebes.
- Iphigenia Greek Daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and leader of the Greek forces in the Trojan War; sister of Electra and Orestes.