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From: "Ralph Hancock" <hancock@dircon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Parade
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:35:04 -0000
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Diana Wright wrote:

[ ... ] where else can you see women marching with a banner that says
"Daughters of Pasiphae" [& what in the world are they?]?

Phaedra was the daughter of Minos and Pasiphae. There is a line early on in
Racine's _Phe\dre_ when someone mentions the heroine and remarks that she is

La fille de Minos et de Pasiphae"

at which the knowledgeable audience is supposed to utter a little gasp of
horror, knowing that anyone with that parentage will come to a sticky end;
as indeed she does.

Ralph Hancock
hancock@dircon.co.uk
www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm

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