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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.

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“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?"”
Seneca, De Ira (On Anger) 3.36.1-3

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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.

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