Potiphar
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Potiphar was an Egyptian officer of the Pharaoh, a captain of the guard. Potiphar's wife is a sexually dissatisfied wife, who falsely accused her butler Joseph of raping her after he had refused her advances, see false accusation of rape.
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Cultural references
- In The Divine Comedy, Dante sees the shade of Potiphar's wife in the eighth circle of Hell. She does not speak, but Dante is told by another spirit that, along with other perjurers, she is condemned to suffer a burning fever for all eternity.
- In the John Sayles film Matewan, Will Oldham plays a young minister boy who preaches the story of Potiphar to his small town.
- In Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Potiphar is featured as a tycoon of ancient Egypt and his wife is portrayed as being a man eater. Both feature in the song "Potiphar".
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