Phaedra may refer to:

Mythology

Phaedra (mythology) In Greek mythology, Phaedra (; ) was a Crete, Cretan princess. Her name derives from the Greek word (), which means "bright." According to legend, she was the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, and the wife of Theseus. Later in life, Phaedra fell ...

, Cretan princess, daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, wife of Theseus

Arts and entertainment

* ''Phaedra'' (Cabanel), an 1880 painting by Alexandre Cabanel * House of Phaedra, house with erotic murals in

Pompei Pompei (; ), also known in English as Pompeii ( ) after the name of the ancient city, is a city and in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy. It contains the ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. History Modern Po ...

Film

* ''Phaedra'' (film), a 1962 film by Jules Dassin based on the Phaedra myth * Phaedra Cinema, a distributor of films in the US 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 "Some Velvet Morning" is a song written by Lee Hazlewood and originally recorded by Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra in late 1967. It first appeared on Sinatra's album '' Movin' with Nancy,'' the soundtrack to her 1967 television special of the same ...

" sung by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood * ''Phaedra'' (opera), an opera by Hans Werner Henze based on the Phaedra myth *

Phèdre (opera) ''Phèdre'' (, ''Phaedra'') is an opera by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, first performed at Fontainebleau on 26 October 1786. It takes the form of a ''tragédie mise en musique'' in three acts. The libretto by François-Benoît Hoffma ...

, an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne * Phaedra (Phèdre), a character in the opera ''

Hippolytus and Aricia ('' Hippolytus and Aricia'') was the first opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau. It was premiered to great controversy by the Académie Royale de Musique at its theatre in the Palais-Royal in Paris on October 1, 1733. The French libretto, by Abbé S ...

'' by Jean-Philippe Rameau *

Phaedra (CD label) Phaedra is a CD label whose aim it is "to publish works written between 1830 and the present by Flemish (and occasionally Belgian) composers, and to promote them world-wide". The label used to be a subdivision of "Klassieke Concerten vzw" and was ...

, an independent classical CD-label, publishing Belgian and especially Flemish music

Plays

* ''Phaedra'' (Seneca), a play by Seneca the Younger * ''

Phèdre ''Phèdre'' (; originally ''Phèdre et Hippolyte'') is a French dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. Composition and premiere With ...

'', play by Jean Racine

People

Phaedra Parks Phaedra Creonta Parks (born October 26, 1973) is an American attorney, legal analyst, television personality, author, activist, and businesswoman. She is best known for appearing on Bravo's ''The Real Housewives of Atlanta'' from 2010 until 2017 ...

(born 1976), reality television personality and cast member on ''The Real Housewives of Atlanta'' and ''Married to Medicine'' * Phaedra Nicolaidis, Australian actress

Science

174 Phaedra 174 Phaedra is a sizable, rocky main belt asteroid that was discovered by Canadian-American astronomer James Craig Watson on September 2, 1877, and named after Phaedra, the tragic lovelorn queen in Greek mythology. The asteroid is orbiting the S ...

, an asteroid * ''Phaedra'', synonym of ''

Bernardia ''Bernardia'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described for modern science as a genus in 1754. It is native to North and South America, as well as the West Indies. ;Species ;Formerly included moved to other genera ''(Adelia ...

'', a plant genus * ''Phaedra'' (butterfly), a butterfly genus