See Also: Phaedra(encyclopedia)

Hastings (oh) and Phaedra (sh)


Hastings (oh)



a town on the southeast coast of England. The Battle of Hastings took place near there in 1066, when King Harold II of England was defeated and killed by the French army of William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy..

Phaedra (sh)




In Greek legend, the daughter of King Minos.

She became the second wife of Theseus after he abandoned her sister Ariadne. She later fell in love with her stepson Hippolytus; rejected, she accused him of rape. He was killed, and she hanged herself.