When he went home to Athens, the great prince Theseus took me with him at first, but he later left me on the island of Naxos. Why did he leave me there? Everyone says that he was tired of me. But when we met, I was a princess of Crete and the most beautiful woman in the world. Was he really tired of me? Some people say that I killed myself when he left and went to Athens with my younger sister Phedra. She was only a child at the time, but it was useful to me that people thought I was so angry or sad that the ended my life then. I am old now, forty years old, and I want to tell everyone what really happened before it is too late.