Seneca
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Seneca was a Roman philosopher, politician, and playwright who lived around the time of Jesus and became one of the most influential teachers of Stoicism, a philosophy emphasizing virtue and acceptance of fate. His writings on ethics and how to live a good life remain widely read today, and his ideas about managing emotions and finding inner peace continue to influence Western thought.
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- Born
- c. 55 BC
- Died
- c. 39 AD
- Works
- 41
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- 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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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.