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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Phaedra, sometimes known as Hippolytus, is a play by Seneca the Younger, telling the story of Phaedra and her taboo love for her stepson Hippolytus. It is an adaptation of Hippolytus by Euripides; in Seneca`s version, Phaedra is more sensual and shameless, deceiving her nurse in order to gain her as an accomplice.