Phaedra
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Phaedra may refer to:
Mythology
[edit]- Phaedra (mythology), Cretan princess, daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, wife of Theseus
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Phaedra (Cabanel), an 1880 painting by Alexandre Cabanel
- House of Phaedra, house with erotic murals in Pompei
Film
[edit]- Phaedra (film), a 1962 film by Jules Dassin based on the Phaedra myth
- Phaedra Cinema, a distributor of films in the US of the late 20th century
Music
[edit]- Phaedra (album) (1974), by the electronic music group Tangerine Dream
- Phaedra 2005, a later album by Tangerine Dream
- Phaedra (cantata), a cantata by Benjamin Britten based on the Phaedra myth
- Phaedra, a mysterious woman referred to in the song "Some Velvet Morning" sung by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
- Phaedra (opera), an opera by Hans Werner Henze based on the Phaedra myth
- Phèdre (opera), an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
- Phaedra (Phèdre), a character in the opera Hippolytus and Aricia by Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Phaedra (CD label), an independent classical CD-label, publishing Belgian and especially Flemish music
Plays
[edit]- Phaedra (Seneca), a play by Seneca the Younger
- Phèdre, play by Jean Racine
People
[edit]- Phaedra Parks (born 1976), reality television personality and cast member on The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Married to Medicine
- Phaedra Nicolaidis, Australian actress
Science
[edit]- 174 Phaedra, an asteroid
- Phaedra, synonym of Bernardia, a plant genus
- Phaedra (butterfly), a butterfly genus
See also
[edit]- Fedra (disambiguation), Italian spelling of Phaedra
- Phaedrus (disambiguation)
- The 4th Colossus from Shadow of the Colossus