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Seneca the Elder
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Roman scholar, writer and historian (54 BC-c.39 AD)
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Seneca the Elder, born Lucius Annaeus Seneca in 54 BCE in Córdoba, was an Ancient Roman writer, rhetorician, poet, and philosopher. He lived during the Roman Empire and died in Rome in 39. A member of the Annaea gens, he wrote in Latin. His son was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, also known as Seneca.
His literary output includes works such as *L. Annaei Senecae opera quae supersunt supplementum* and *Annaei Senecae Oratorvm et rhetorvm sententiae divisiones colores*. Other titles associated with him include *L. Annei Senece Tragoediae pristinae integritati restitutae* and *Oratorum et rhetorum*. Various sources list differing counts for his works, ranging from 5 to 41. He is referenced by 659 other encyclopedia articles and described in sources including the *Nordisk familjebok* and *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*.
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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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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,773x
- An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics
· 2018 · cited 3,145x
- Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools
· 2005 · cited 2,926x
- Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas
· 2018 · cited 2,810x
- Cell-of-Origin Patterns Dominate the Molecular Classification of 10,000 Tumors from 33 Types of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 2,296x
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Quotes
- “Magni pectoris est inter secunda moderatio.”
- “Perierat totus orbis, nisi iram finiret misericordia.”
- “Iniquum est conlapsis manum non porrigere; commune hoc ius generis humani est.”
- “Quædam iura non scripta, sed omnibus scriptis certiora sunt.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
15 objects attributed to Seneca the Elder, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
M. Annaei Senecae Rhetoris Opera
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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]
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Encyclopedic overview
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Elder (/ˈsɛnɪkə/ SEN-ik-ə; c. 54 BC – c. AD 39), also known as Seneca the Rhetorician, was a Roman writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Corduba, Hispania. He wrote a collection of reminiscences about the Roman schools of rhetoric, six books of which are extant in a more or less complete state and five others in epitome only. His principal work, a history of Roman affairs from the beginning of the Civil Wars until the last years of his life, is almost entirely lost to posterity. Seneca lived through the reigns of three significant emperors; Augustus (ruled 27 BC – 14 AD), Tiberius (ruled 14–37 AD) and Caligula (ruled 37–41 AD). He was the father of Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, best known as a Proconsul of Achaia; his second son was the dramatist and Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger (Lucius), who was tutor of Nero, and his third son, Marcus Annaeus Mela, became the father of the poet Lucan.
Biography
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