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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Sources. Seneca's main sources were Stoic.J. Fillion-Lahille has argued that the first book of the De Ira was inspired by the Stoic philosopher Chrysippus' (3rd-century BC) treatise On Passions (Peri Pathôn), whereas the second and third drew mainly from a later Stoic philosopher, Posidonius (1st-century BC), who had also written a treatise On Passions and differed from Chrysippus in giving a ...
De Beneficiis (English: On Benefits) is a first-century work by Seneca the Younger.It forms part of a series of moral essays (or "Dialogues") composed by Seneca. De Beneficiis concerns the award and reception of gifts and favours within society, and examines the complex nature and role of gratitude within the context of Stoic ethics.
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.
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 were: five separate ...