Philosopher · Classical antiquity · Spain
Seneca
c. 4 BC–65 AD
Roman Stoic born at Cordoba in Spain who became tutor and then chief minister to the emperor Nero. His Letters to Lucilius are the most readable Stoic text from antiquity. Accused of plotting against Nero, he was ordered to take his own life in 65 AD.
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- Born
- About 4 BC, Cordoba, Spain.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Seneca
- Died
- 65 AD, ordered to commit suicide after the Pisonian conspiracy.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Seneca
- School
- Stoicism, in its Roman practical form.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Seneca
- Known for
- The Moral Letters, the essays on anger and the shortness of life, and tragedies that shaped Renaissance drama.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Seneca
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