Phaedra may refer to:

Mythology

Phaedra (mythology) In Greek mythology, Phaedra ( grc, Φαίδρα, ) (or Fedra) was a Cretan princess. Her name derives from the Greek word (), which means "bright". According to legend, she was the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, and the wife of Theseus. Pha ...

, Cretan princess, daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, wife of Theseus

Arts and entertainment

* ''Phaedra'' (Cabanel), an 1880 painting by Alexandre Cabanel

Film

* ''Phaedra'' (film), a 1962 film by Jules Dassin based on the Phaedra myth *

Phaedra Cinema Phaedra Cinema was a United States distributor of independent and international films. The company was created by filmmaker Gregory Hatanaka in 1996 and its first release was the comedy ''Sudden Manhattan'', directed by and starring Adrienne Shel ...

, a distributor of films in the US of the late 20th century

Music

* ''Phaedra'' (album) (1974), by the electronic music group Tangerine Dream ** ''

Phaedra 2005 ''Phaedra 2005'' is the ninety-first release by Tangerine Dream. It is a re-recording of their 1974 album ''Phaedra''. Track listing Personnel * Edgar Froese— composer, musician, producer * Thorsten Quaeschning— musician (flute) on ''Seque ...

'', a later album by Tangerine Dream * ''Phaedra'' (cantata), a cantata by Benjamin Britten based on the Phaedra myth * Phaedra, a mysterious woman referred to in the song "

Some Velvet Morning "Some Velvet Morning" is a song written by Lee Hazlewood and originally recorded by Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra in late 1967. It first appeared on Sinatra's album '' Movin' with Nancy,'' the soundtrack to her 1967 television special of the same ...

" sung by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood * ''Phaedra'' (opera), an opera by Hans Werner Henze based on the Phaedra myth *

Phèdre (opera) ''Phèdre'' (''Phaedra'') is an opera by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, first performed at Fontainebleau on 26 October 1786. It takes the form of a '' tragédie lyrique'' in three acts. The libretto, by François-Benoît Hoffman, is ...

, an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne * Phaedra (Phèdre), a character in the opera ''

Hippolytus and Aricia (''Hippolytus (son of Theseus), Hippolytus and Aricia (mythology), Aricia'') was the first opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau. It was premiered to great controversy by the Académie Royale de Musique at its Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré ...

'' by Jean-Philippe Rameau *

Phaedra (CD label) Phaedra is a CD label whose aim it is "to publish works written between 1830 and the present by Flemish (and occasionally Belgian) composers, and to promote them world-wide". The label used to be a subdivision of "Klassieke Concerten vzw" and was ...

, an independent classical CD-label, publishing Belgian and especially Flemish music

Plays

* ''Phaedra'' (Seneca), a play by Seneca the Younger * '' Phèdre'', play by Jean Racine

People

* Phaedra Parks (born 1976), reality television personality and cast member on ''The Real Housewives of Atlanta'' and ''Married to Medicine'' * Phaedra Nicolaidis, Australian actress

Science

174 Phaedra Phaedra (minor planet designation: 174 Phaedra) is a sizable, rocky main belt asteroid that was discovered by Canadian-American astronomer James Craig Watson on September 2, 1877, and named after Phaedra, the tragic lovelorn queen in Greek mytholo ...

, an asteroid * ''Phaedra'', synonym of ''

Bernardia ''Bernardia'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described for modern science as a genus in 1754. It is native to North and South America, as well as the West Indies. ;Species ;Formerly included moved to other genera ''( Adeli ...

'', a plant genus * ''Phaedra'' (butterfly), a butterfly genus