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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
c. 4 BCE–c. 65 CE · Corduba (Cordoba)
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 BCE - 65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, born in Spain. He served as tutor and later chief advisor to the emperor Nero, and wrote influential philosophical essays and "Letters" on Stoic ethics - on topics such as anger, mercy, the shortness of life, and how to face death - as well as a set of tragedies. Having fallen from favor, he was ordered by Nero to take his own life, which he did in a manner long admired as a model of Stoic composure.
“When the light has been removed and my wife has fallen silent, I examine my entire day and retrace my deeds and words; I conceal nothing from myself, I pass over nothing. I ask myself: "What ailment of yours have you cured today? What fault have you resisted? In what respect are you better?"”
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Corduba (Cordoba)
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About Corduba (Cordoba)
Corduba, modern Córdoba in southern Spain (Andalusia), was the capital of the Roman province of Hispania Baetica. It was the birthplace of the Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger), as well as of his father Seneca the Elder and the poet Lucan.
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Seneca, Lucius Annaeus’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Parthenius of Nicaea, Didymus Alexandrinus, Strabo, Seneca the Elder, Ovid, Tiberius, Celsus, Valerius Maximus, Phaedrus, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Pliny, the Elder, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Petronius Arbiter, Musonius Rufus, Persius, Quintilian, Lucan
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Seneca, Lucius Annaeus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Livy· 59 BCE–17 CE
- Isidore of Charax· 40 BCE–20 CE
- Aristonicus of Alexandria· 35 BCE–25 CE
- Claudius· 10 BCE–54 CE
- Galba· 3 BCE–69 CE
- Vespasian· 9 CE–79 CE
- Caligula· 12 CE–41 CE
- Aelius Theon· 15 CE–55 CE
- Vitellius· 15 CE–69 CE
- Dorotheus of Sidon· 25 CE–90 CE
- Hero of Alexandria· 27 CE–67 CE
- Nerva· 30 CE–98 CE
- Otho· 32 CE–69 CE
- Chariton of Aphrodisias· 35 CE–110 CE
- Nero· 37 CE–68 CE
- Titus· 39 CE–81 CE
- Valerius Flaccus· 40 CE–95 CE
- Martial· 40 CE–104 CE
- Dio Chrysostom· 40 CE–115 CE
- Statius· 45 CE–96 CE
- Rufus of Ephesus· 45 CE–105 CE
- Plutarch· 46 CE–120 CE
- Domitian· 51 CE–96 CE
- Trajan· 53 CE–117 CE
Jewish world
Christian world
Scientists
Works(22)
Hercules Furens
Oedipus
Thyestes
Troades
De Clementia
Apocolocyntosis
Phoenissae
Epistulae
Medea
Agamemnon
De Beneficiis
De Brevitate Vitae
De consolatione ad Polybium
43
De Otio Sapientis
De Ira
De Tranquilitate Animi
De Constantia
De Providentia
De consolatione ad Marciam
40
De Vita Beata
De consolatione ad Helviam
42