Seneca the Elder
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Seneca the Elder was a Roman scholar and historian who lived from 54 BC to around 39 AD and wrote about the important figures and events of his time. His works, which focused on rhetoric and history, survive mainly in fragments but remain valuable sources for understanding Roman intellectual life and politics during the late Republic and early Empire.
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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 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.
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