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Choose any passage from Euripides’ Hippolytus (except for Aphrodite’s prologue speech) that marks a significant moment in the story and write a critical analysis of that passage.
Go attendants, enter the house and take care of the meal after hunting a full table is a pleasurable thing . And we must curry the horses, so that, after I have seated myself with food I may yoke them to the chariot and give them their proper exercise. But to that Cyprus of your say good riddance.
Artimis is the god of hunting; Hippolytus is very intrigued by artmis and wants to be just like him.
By not respecting Aphrodite as a god, Hippolytus future is already foreseen as him dying. It’s just a matter of time in the play until he dies. Though the other gods like Hippolytus they can not interfere of a gods work. Innocent people are also killed in the wrath of Aphrodite revenge.
Worshiping only a few gods is not good all gods must be worshiped favoring one god over the other not good.
Human free will is depicted in the play but are they really free, (Aphrodite uses phreda in her vengeance, even though she decated a place for Aphrodite and speaks nothing but good things of her.
This all starts as Hippolytus says but ot that cypris of yours I say good riddance(openly disrespecting her )
Thesis:
Three main body points
Thesis- Hippolytus actions of openly disrespecting Aphrodite and worshiping other gods draw attention to three themes of the play. Respecting one god over the other, the piety and arrogance of Hippolytus and furthermore Aphrodite questionable vengeance towards Hippolytus.
Paragraph 1- Respecting one god over the other
In passage Hippolytus talks about artmis and hunting, how he favors those traits and constantly bashes aphrodite traits as a god.
Paragraph 2- Piety of Hippolytus
His arrogant attudite towards life in general how it

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