Hippolytus - Opening

translated by Richard Moore

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Everyone knows me. I'm Cyprid, the goddess.

Sex and desire, my specialties, draw men

helpless from Pontus to Heracles' Pillars.

Those that delight in me, I can reward them;

those that detest me will harvest my hatred.

Even immortals get caught in my soft snares.

Goddesses love it when worshipers gather.

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Euripides, 2

Hippolytus, Suppliant Women,

Helen, Electra, Cyclops

Edited by

David R. Slavitt and Palmer Bovie