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Seneca

Also known as Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the Younger, the Younger Seneca, Lucio Anneo Seneca, Annaeus Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor, Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior, L. Annæus Seneca

Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a human born in 4 BCE in Corduba and died on April 12, 0065, in Rome. He was a playwright, poet, philosopher, and statesperson of Ancient Rome during the Roman Empire. His notable works include De Vita Beata, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, De ira, and De Brevitate Vitae. He spoke Latin and Ancient Greek and resided in Rome.

Seneca was the son of Seneca the Elder and the sibling of Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus. He studied under Sotion and Papirius Fabianus. He died by forced suicide, which was a form of capital punishment. He is described by sources such as the Nordisk familjebok, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

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Person · Open Library

Born: c. 55 BC
Died: c. 39 AD
Works: 41

Top works

L. Annaei Senecae opera quae supersunt supplementum
Annaei Senecae Oratorvm et rhetorvm sententiae divisiones colores
L. Annei Senece Tragoediae pristinae integritati restitutae
Annaei Senecae Oratorum et Rhetorum Sententiae, Divisiones, Colores
Oratorum et rhetorum

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Type: Person
Gender: Male

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 8,803
Total plays: 178,421

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“Seneca the Elder - Roman orator”
“Seneca the Younger - the elder Seneca's son, Roman philosopher and playwright”

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Seneca, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Books have L. Annaee Seneque

Opera

Seneca’s books: first book of the bienauenturated life: second of the seven liberal arts: third of admonitions [et] doctrines: quarto the first of prouid ¯ ecia of god: fifth the followed book of puidecia of god

[books of Lucio Anneo Seneca in which he deals first, of the blessed life, second, of the seven liberal arts, third, of the precepts and doctrines, fourth, of the providence of God, fifth of the providence of God translated from the Castilian by command of the very high principal the king Don Juan de Castilla y de Leon, the second]

Translation of the Seven Benefit Books

Tragediae [Manuscript]

L. Annaiei Senecae Philosophi Opera omnia [Texto impreso] :]ad optimorum librorum fidem accurate edita

Obra selecta [Manuscrito]

De vida bienaventurada [Manuscrito]

Epistles from Seneca to Lucilo [Manuscript]

Prólogos y prohemios de las tragedias de Séneca [Manuscrito]

Five books by Seneca. Of admonitions [and] doctrines

Seneca’s five books in romance: agora nueuly printed, corrected and rendered.

Epistolas de Seneca en romance : nueuamēte impressas y corregidas y emendadas

Opera, quae extant omnia: Coelii Secvndi Cvrionis Vogilantissima cura castigata ... Vincentii Pralli H. opera ... emendata ac restituta (etc.)

Controversiar(um) lib(ri) X. Suasoriarum liber I. ... emendati & annotationibus illustrati

Scripta que extant ex editioner Romana virorum doctorum notes castigata... ex veteribus libris aucta

(Opera) L. Annaeus Seneca a M. Antonio Mureto correctus et notis illustratus. Accedunt seorsim animadversiones... Jani Gruteri opera

Lettere ... volgarizzate dal commendatore Annibal Caro. Col testo a fronte e con note

Del libro de Beneficii volgarizzamento del buon secolo della lingua, ora per la prima volta stampato per cura del cavaliere Francesco Mortara.

Les oeuvres ; de la version de Pierre du Ryer

Werke. Uebers. von J. M. Moser, A. Pauly und A. Haakh.

Volgarizzamenti classici

Tragoediae.

Volgarizzamento di un' epistola ... tratto da un codice Ms. Testo di lingua inedito.

Tragoediae.

OperaSeudo-Seneca: Proverbia "Amonestamientos y doctrinas".(En castellano:)Cinco libros de Séneca, trad. y glosados por Alonso de Cartagena

Quedam interpretationes hebraicorum nominum, et differentie Ciceronis, cum multis aliis excerptis doctorum tam catholicorum quam gentilium. Item expositio super Lamentationes Ieremie, historialiter et allegorice, cum aliis tractatibus [titel fenestra]

Disputatio vitiorum et uirtutum; Excerpta ex dictis Senece, Bernardi, Ricardi, Ieronimi, Augustini et Gregorii. Item expositio super salutationem angelicam [titel fenestra]

Hylarius de Trinitate. Sextus musice Augustini. Quedam excerpta ex libris Tullii et Senece. Et Athanasius contra Arrium, Sabellium et Fortunatum [titel fenestra]

Hauerius :

De ortu scientarum. Depictiones artium. Epistole senece cum tabulis. Idem de uita beata. Idem de breuitate uite. Idem de ira. Liber exercitationis ad felicitate. Liber de nobilitate animi [fenestratitel]

Historia Daretis phrigii de excidio troie. Et historia britonum per gaufridum monemutensem composita, cum aliis [fenestratitel]

Varia [hybride manuscript en incunabel]

OperaSeudo-Seneca: Proverbia "Amonestamientos y doctrinas".(En castellano:)Cinco libros de Séneca, trad. y glosados por Alonso de Cartagena

Opera Opera hica [Praec.] Seudo-Seneca: Liber de moribus. De De is fortuitorum. [Seq.] Proverbia vel De paupertate. De quattuor virtutibus. Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam quae vocantur. Marco Anneo Seneca: Suasoriae. Controversiae Declamationes vel excerpta ex Controversiarum libris. Seneca: Epistolae ad Lucillium

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Encyclopedic overview

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (/ˈsɛnɪkə/ SEN-ik-ə; c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, a dramatist, and in one work, a satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.

Seneca was born in Colonia Patricia Corduba in Hispania, and was trained in rhetoric and philosophy in Greece. His father was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lucan. In AD 41, Seneca was exiled to the island of Corsica under emperor Claudius, but was allowed to return in 49 to become a tutor to Nero. When Nero became emperor in 54, Seneca became his advisor and, together with the praetorian prefect Sextus Afranius Burrus, provided competent government for the first five years of Nero's reign. Seneca's influence over Nero declined with time, and in 65 Seneca was executed by forced suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, of which he may have been innocent, although there is still no consensus agreement. His stoic and calm suicide has become the subject of numerous paintings.

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