Phaedra

Phaedra may refer to:

Mythology

• Phaedra (mythology), 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

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" sung by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
• Phaedra (opera), an opera by Hans Werner Henze based on the Phaedra myth
• Phèdre (opera), an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
• Phaedra (Phèdre), a character in the opera Hippolytus and Aricia by Jean-Philippe Rameau
• Phaedra (CD label), an independent classical CD-label, publishing Belgian and especially Flemish music

Plays

• Phaedra (Seneca), a play by Seneca the Younger
• Phèdre, play by Jean Racine

People

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

See also

• Fedra (disambiguation), Italian spelling of Phaedra
• Phaedrus (disambiguation)
• The 4th Colossus from Shadow of the Colossus