Phaedra and Hippolytus.
Daughter of King Minos and Queen Pasiphaë of Crete, Phaedra married Theseus after he had abandoned her sister, Ariadne, on Naxos. She thus became stepmother of Hippolytus, son of Theseus by the Amazon Hip-polyta (or her sister Antiope). Hippolytus was a chaste devotee of Artemis (Diana), which provoked the jealousy of Aphrodite (Venus). She caused Phaedra to fall in love with the youth, who spurned her advances.
Fearful that Hippolytus would report her shameful behavior to Theseus, Phaedra told her husband that Hippolytus had tried to rape her. Theseus banished his son and called on his father Poseidon to punish him. The sea-god sent a raging bull out of the sea, frightening Hyppolytus’s horses so that they dragged him to his death. When Theseus learned from Artemis of his son’s innocence and his wife’s involuntary perfidy, it was too late: Hippolytus was dead and Phaedra had hanged herself.
According to an alternate tradition, Asclepius (Aesculapius) revived Hippolytus, who became king in Aricia, where he instituted rites in honor of Artemis.