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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
4 BCE–65 CE
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.
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