Phaedra

Phaedra can refer to Phaedra (mythology). The term may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Ballet

• Phaedra, a ballet by Robert Starer and Martha Graham based on the Phaedra myth

Film

• Phaedra (film), a 1962 film by Jules Dassin based on the Phaedra myth
• Phaedra Cinema, a distributor of films in the USA of the late 20th century

Music

• 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

Opera

• Phaedra (opera), an opera by Hans Werner Henze based on the Phaedra myth
• Phaedra (Phèdre), a character in the opera Hippolytus and Aricia by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Plays

• Hippolytus, by Euripides, a play based on the Phaedra myth
• Phaedra (Seneca) (sometimes known as Hippolytus), by Seneca the Younger is a play based on the Phaedra myth and on Euripides' play Hippolytus
• Phèdre by Jean Racine, a dramatic tragedy, first performed in 1677
• Phaedra's Love, a modern adaptation of Seneca's Phaedra by British playwright Sarah Kane; it was first performed in 1996
• Phaedra, 1962 English translation of Racine's work by Robert Lowell
• Phaedra Britannica, 1975 Tony Harrison's version of Racine's work, set in the British Raj

People

• Phaedra Parks, co-star on The Real Housewives of Atlanta
• Phaedra Nicolaidis, Australian actress
• Phaedra Taiarol, Professional Engineer in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Science

• 174 Phaedra, an asteroid
• Phaedra, synonym of Bernardia, a plant genus
• Phaedra (butterfly), a butterfly genus