Abstract
Phaedra's suicide in Euripides' Hippolytus is the object of reflection of many researchers mainly due to the great speech in which the queen exposes the reasons of her drastic attitude. In the speech (v. 374-391), Phaedra claims to know what is good for herself, and yet she does not seem capable of acting according to this knowledge (episteme). This research proposal aims to compare the q…