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PIERRE GUERIN

Pierre Narcisse Guerin was a French painter. He was born in 1774 at Paris and died in 1833. He studied under Regnault and achieved great success with classical subjects; his chief pictures being Death of Cato of Utica, Return of Marcus Sextus, Phaedra and Hippolytus, Andromache, Clytemnestra.
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DIANA RIGG

Diana Rigg is a British actress. She was born in 1938 at Yorkshire. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at Stratford- on-Avon in 1959 and made her mark shortly thereafter in productions of The Taming Of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, and King Lear. Following a year-long stint as Emma Peel in the television series 'The Avengers', she joined the National Theatre, where she played Dottie in Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, Celimene in The Misanthrope, Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, and Phaedra in Phaedra Britannica. She also starred in Tom Stoppard's 'Night and Day', Antony and Cleopatra, Stephen Sondheim's Follies, and won a Tony Award in 1994 for her Broadway performance in the title role of Medea.
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ACAMAS

Acamas was a son of Theseus and Phaedra. He went to Troy with Diomedes to demand the return of Helen, only to fall in love with Laodice, daughter of Priam, who subsequently bore him a son, Munychus.
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HIPPOLYTUS

In Greek mythology, Hippolytus was the son of Theseus. When he rejected the love of his stepmother, Phaedra, she falsely accused him of making advances to her and turned Theseus against him. Killed by Poseidon at Theseus' request, he was in some accounts of the legend restored to life when his innocence was proven.
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PASIPHAE

In Greek mythology, Pasiphae was the wife of King Minos of Crete and mother of Phaedra and of the Minotaur. After blaming Aphrodite for her husbands philandering, Pasiphae was punished by being filled with lust for an enormous fire-breathing white bull. Pasiphae persuaded Daedalus to build her a cow shaped wooden framework, and hid inside it while he trundled it into the bull's pasture. The bull mounted the framework and mated with
Pasiphae inside. She then became pregnant with the Minotaur.
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PHAEDRA

In Greek mythology, Phaedra was a daughter of Minos, King of Crete and Pasiphae. Her unrequited love for Hippolytus led to his death and her suicide. She became renowned as a minor goddess of the moon, barley, myrtle, rain-making and the death of kings. A siren-like Enchantress.
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