Phaedra, very pretty name. I knew a "Kaedra" many years ago in high school. I
always thought it an unusual and beautiful  name......and the girl was just as
much so!

John Rodgers
'88GL Driver in Hot Ole' Birmingham, AL where is was 100F today.........again!!!

PSavage wrote:

> Hello Bob Adams--
>   The name comes from anchient Greek mythology.  Phaedra was a goddess, wife
> of Thesius, who,  like all good warrier kings went off to war.  Trouble was,
> he stayed away for forty years.  Phaedra got restless after a few decades
> and took a young lover.
>
> The plot thickens:  Thesius returns.  The young lover, it turns out, is the
> son of Thesius from a previous marriage.  To preserve the honor of all
> concerned, Phaedra and Thesius committ joint suicide.  This myth was
> popularized, some might say immortalized, by Racines play by the same name.
> In the sixties it was brought once again out of mothballs and a b&w film was
> released starring Tony Perkins and, I believe, Anna Magnani(sp).
> I've not yet met in this lifetime another woman with my name!
> Phaedra