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  2. Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia

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    Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger ( / ˈsɛnɪkə / SEN-ik-ə; c. 4 BC – AD 65), [1] usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature . Seneca was born in Colonia Patricia Corduba in Hispania, and was trained in ...

  3. Seneca the Elder - Wikipedia

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    Seneca the Elder. Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Elder ( / ˈsɛnɪkə / SEN-ik-ə; c. 54 BC – c. AD 39), also known as Seneca the Rhetorician, was a Roman writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Corduba, Hispania. He wrote a collection of reminiscences about the Roman schools of rhetoric, six books of which are extant in a more or less ...

  4. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium - Wikipedia

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    Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium. The Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium ( Latin for "Moral Letters to Lucilius "), also known as the Moral Epistles and Letters from a Stoic, is a letter collection of 124 letters that Seneca the Younger wrote at the end of his life, during his retirement, after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for more than ten years.

  5. Loeb Classical Library - Wikipedia

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    The Loeb Classical Library ( LCL; named after James Loeb; / loʊb /, German: [løːp]) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press. [1] The library contains important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature designed to make the text accessible to the broadest ...

  6. Herculaneum papyri - Wikipedia

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    Image contrast and brightness were enhanced to better visualize the details visible to the naked eye on their external surface. [1] The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. They had been carbonized when the villa was engulfed by the eruption of Mount ...

  7. Seneca's Consolations - Wikipedia

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    The Consolations are part of Seneca’s Treatises, commonly called Dialogues, or Dialogi. [1] These works clearly contain essential principles of Seneca’s Stoic teachings. Although they are personal addresses of Seneca, these works are written more like essays than personal letters of consolation. Furthermore, although each essay is ...

  8. Thyestes (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    Thyestes. Thyestes is a first century AD fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of approximately 1112 lines of verse by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, which tells the story of Thyestes, who unwittingly ate his own children who were slaughtered and served at a banquet by his brother Atreus. [1] As with most of Seneca's plays, Thyestes is ...

  9. De Brevitate Vitae (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    De Brevitate Vitae. De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits.

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