EURIPIDES
He is with her continually, this Maiden Goddess, in the
greenwood.
They hunt with hounds and clear the land of wild things,
mortal with immortal in companionship.
I do not grudge him such privileges: why should I?	20
But for his sins against me
I shall punish Hippolytus this day.
I have no need to toil to win my end:
much of the task has been already done.
Once he came from Pittheus' house^a to the country of
Pandion
that he might see and be initiate in the holy mysteries.         25
Phaedra saw him
and her heart was filled with the longings of love.
This was my work.
So before ever she came to Troezen
close to the rock of Pallas in view of this land,	30
she dedicated a temple to Cypris.
For her love, too, dwelt in a foreign land.
Ages to come will call this temple after him,
the temple of the Goddess established here.
When Theseus left the land of Cecrops,
flying from the guilty stain of the murder of the
Pallantids,	35
condemning himself to a year's exile
i. "Pittheus' house": The historian Pausanias, relating the legend of
Hippolytus, says: "King Theseus, when he married Phaedra, daughter of
the king of Crete, was in a quandary what to do with Hippolytus, his
son by his former mistress, Antiope the Amazon. He did not wish that
after his own death Hippolytus should rule the children of his legitimate
marriage, nor yet that Hippolytus should he ruled by them, for he loved
him. So he sent the boy to be brought up by his grandfather Pittheus,
who lived in Troezen and ruled there. Theseus hoped that when Pittheus
died, Hippolytus might inherit the kingdom, and thus peace within the
family be preserved, Hippolytus governing Troezen, and Phaedra's chil-
dren holding sway in Athens.'^7 "Pandion's country" and "land of
Cecrops" both signify Attica. Pandion and Cecrops were early legendary
heroes of Attica.
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