Hippolyte (disambiguation)
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Hippolyte, or Hippolytus (male form) or Hippolyta (female form), can mean several things:
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[edit] Greek mythology and its influence
- Hippolyte or Hippolyta, an Amazon queen whose girdle is the object of one of the labours of Heracles
- Hippolyta, a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, loosely based on the Amazon queen
- Queen Hippolyta, a DC Comics superheroine who is the mother of Wonder Woman, loosely based on the Amazon queen.
- Hippolyta, a Marvel Comics character based on the mythological version.
- Hippolytus, a son of Theseus and either Antiope or of queen Hippolyte/Hippolyta (see above)
- Hippolytus, a tragedy by Euripides about the above character
- A character in Jean Racine's play, Phèdre, also based on the myth of Hippolytus
[edit] Saints
- Hippolytus of Rome, an early Christian writer and saint
- Hippolyte of Antioch
[edit] French literature
- Hippolyte, a character in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary
[edit] Geography
- Several French communes are named Saint-Hippolyte
[edit] Natural history
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