Seneca the Elder

Seneca the Elder (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 54 BCE-c. 39 CE) was a Roman writer on rhetoric, remembered for his collections of the Controversiae and Suasoriae, which preserve the declamations and styles of the great orators and rhetoric teachers of his day. He was the father of the Stoic philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger, with whom he should not be confused.