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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 ...
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.
Medea about to kill her children ( Eugène Delacroix) Medea is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of about 1027 lines of verse written by Seneca the Younger. It is generally considered to be the strongest of his earlier plays. [1] It was written around 50 CE. The play is about the vengeance of Medea against her betraying ...
Onondaga Nation, Oneida Nation, Tuscarora Nation, Mohawk Nation, Cayuga Nation, other Iroquoian peoples. The Seneca ( / ˈsɛnɪkə / SEN-ik-ə; [2] Seneca: O-non-dowa-gah, lit. 'Great Hill People') [3] are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America.
Senecan tragedy. Senecan tragedy refers to a set of ten ancient Roman tragedies [1], eight of which were probably written by the Stoic philosopher and politician Lucius Annaeus Seneca. [2] Senecan tragedy, much like any particular type of tragedy, had specific characteristics to help classify it. The three characteristics of Senecan tragedy ...
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, branded as Seneca Polytechnic since 2023, is a multi-campus public college in the Greater Toronto Area and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. It offers full-time and part-time programs at the baccalaureate , diploma, certificate , and graduate levels [4] attended primarily by international students ...
De Clementia. De Clementia (frequently translated as On Mercy in English) is a two volume (incomplete) hortatory essay written in AD 55–56 by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, to the emperor Nero in the first five years of his reign. [1]
Naturales quaestiones ( Natural Questions) is a Latin work of natural philosophy written by Seneca around 65 AD. It is not a systematic encyclopedia like the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, though with Pliny's work it represents one of the few Roman works dedicated to investigating the natural world. Seneca's investigation takes place ...