Associations to the word «Phaedra»

Wiktionary

PHAEDRA, proper noun. (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Lycaenidae   — now Curetis.
PHAEDRA, proper noun. (mythology) The wife of Theseus, who falls in love with but is spurned by her stepson Hippolytus, then commits suicide, but is the cause of his later death (details vary between versions).
PHAEDRA, proper noun. (rare) A female given name.
PHAEDRA, proper noun. (astronomy) The asteroid 174 Phaedra.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope