The famous myth of Hippolytus and Phaedra, which has inspired writers and poets, visual artists and composers, and playwrights from antiquity to the present day, from Euripides and Seneca to Sarah Kane.

In contrast to Euripides' Hippolytus, Racine in his tragedy focuses on the character of the lovestruck Phaedra, Hippolytus' stepmother, and on the feeling of romantic rejection, which will lead to her suicide and the horrific death of Theseus' young son.

Kapa Publishing offers the reading and theater-loving audience one of the finest examples of French classicism. The poet Stratis Paschalis, after thirty years of engagement with Racine's masterpiece, presents the fourth and definitive version of the translation of Phaedra.

The volume features an extensive introduction, written specifically for this edition, by Anna Tambaki, a professor in the Department of Theater Studies at the University of Athens.