Mortal Cretan princess, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae and sister of Ariadne; second wife of Theseus and mother of Acamas and Demophon. The tragic protagonist of the Euripidean Hippolytus: her Aphrodite-sent passion for her stepson, his rejection, her suicide and accusing tablet, and the destruction of Hippolytus by the bull from the sea.