The story of Hippolytus..
Basically, Hippolytus wants nothing to do with Aphrodite, and is devoted to Artemis (and is so chaste, like her) so Aphrodite causes his step-mother to fall in love with him. This causes a chain of events where the step-mother (Phaedra) kills herself, blaming the son falsely (saying he raped her, or some other such thing in
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