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Hippolytos [r]: From Greek mythology, he was the son of Theseus and Hippolyta or Antiope (the Amazon queen. He was devoted to Artemis and disliked Aphrodite, according to the drama by Euripides called Hippolytos (named after him). Source: Elizabeth Vandiver, Classics scholar, authority on Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, including the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Homer, and Virgil. This definition is based on her course Classical Mythology for The Teaching Company.