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Hippolytus Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Based on Greek mythology, the events and characters in Hippolytus appear in many different works of literature through the ages.

Aphrodite is an important figure in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Homer’s epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey and, later, Shakespeare’s erotic narrative poem Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare’s retelling of the courtship of Aphrodite and Adonis was the most popular of all his works published during his lifetime.

Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, roamed the wilderness with bow and arrow. Her brave, independent, and indomitable spirit appears in the character of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Aphrodite, Artemis, and other Greek gods and...

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