 Seneca portrays Phaedra as self-aware and direct in the pursuit of her stepson, while in other treatments of the myth she is more of a passive victim of fate.This Phaedra takes on the scheming nature and the cynicism often assigned to the Nurse character.When Seneca's plays were first revived in the Renaissance, the play that soon came to be known as "Phaedra" was titled "Hippolytus", for example, when presented in Latin in Rome in 1486.