Associations to the word «Phaedra»

Wiktionary

PHAEDRA, proper noun. (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Lycaenidae   — now Curetis.
PHAEDRA, proper noun. (mythology) The wife of Theseus, who falls in love with but is spurned by her stepson Hippolytus, then commits suicide, but is the cause of his later death (details vary between versions).
PHAEDRA, proper noun. (rare) A female given name.
PHAEDRA, proper noun. (astronomy) The asteroid 174 Phaedra.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King