Seneca the Younger

Born in Cordoba, Hispania (in modern Spain), Seneca was the second son of Helvia and Marcus (Lucius) Annaeus Seneca, a wealthy rhetorician known as Seneca the Elder. Seneca's older brother, Gallio, was proconsul at Achaia (where early Christian documents recall he encountered the apostle Paul about AD 52). Seneca was uncle to the poet Lucan, by his younger brother, Annaeus Mela. Tradition relates that he was a sickly child, and that he was taken to Rome by an aunt for schooling. He was trained in rhetoric, and studied neo-Pythagorean ...

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Seneca the Younger, Seneca the Younger - Biography, Seneca the Younger - Works, Seneca the Younger - Seneca's Tragedies, Seneca the Younger - Dialogues, Seneca the Younger - Tragedies, Seneca the Younger - Other, Seneca the Younger - Spiritual descendants

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It is impossible to determine if the tragedies were performed on stage: there is no evidence for either side. The German scholar Leo stated that they were recitation dramas but this reflected his conception of what a drama ought to be and this in turn was based on his conception of Greek tragedy. They have been successfully staged in modern times. The dating of the tragedies is highly problematic in the absence of any ancient references. A relative chronology has been suggested on metrical grounds but scholars remain divided. It is in ...

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Baiae (Italian: Baia), in the Campania region of Italy on the Bay of Naples, today a frazione of the comune of Bacoli, was for several hundred years a fashionable and luxurious coastal resort, especially towards the end of the period of the Roman Republic. Baiae was even more popular than Pompeii, Naples, and Capri with the super-rich, notorious for the hedonistic temptations on offe ...

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Berossus (also Berossos or Berosus; Greek: Βεροσσος) was a Hellenistic Babylonian writer who was active at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. Berossus - Life and work. Berossus published the Babyloniaca (hereafter, History of Babylonia) some time around 290-278 B.C.E. for the Macedonian/Seleucid king, Antiochus I. Certain astrological fragments recorded in Pliny the Elder, Censorinus, Flavius Josephus, and Marcus Vitruvius Pollio are also attributed to him, but are of u ...

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Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelled Græco-Buddhism, is the cultural syncretism between the culture of Classical Greece and Buddhism, which developed over a period of close to 800 years in Central Asia in the area corresponding to modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan, between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE. Greco-Buddhism influenced the artistic (and, possibly, conceptual) development of Buddhism, and in particular Mahayana Buddhism, before it was adopted by Central and Northeastern Asia from the 1st century CE, ultima ...

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Classical Latin is the form of the Latin language used by the ancient Romans in what is usually regarded as "classical" Latin literature. Its use spanned the Golden Age of Latin literature—broadly the 1st century BC and the early 1st century AD—possibly extending to the Silver Age—broadly the 1st and 2nd centuries. What is now called "Classical Latin" was, in fact, a highly stylized and polished written literary language selectively constructed from early Latin, of which far fewer remains. Classical Latin is the product o ...

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A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage. It is intended to be read by a solitary reader, or, sometimes, to be read out loud in a group. While all plays can be read as literature without being performed, closet dramas were never intended for the stage at all (the term 'closet' is an early English word for a small, private room). The philosophical dialogues of ancient Greek and Roman writers such as Plato were written in the form of conversations between "characters" and are therefore similar to clos ...

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A comet (denoted by ☄) is a small body in the solar system that orbits the sun and (at least occasionally) exhibits a coma (or atmosphere) and/or a tail — both due primarily to the effects of solar radiation upon the comet's nucleus, which itself is a minor planet composed of rock, dust, and ices. Due to their origins in the outer solar system and their propensity to be highly affected by relatively close approaches to the major planets, comets' orbits are constantly evolving. Some are moved into sungrazing orbits that destroy the comets when they near the sun, while others ...

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Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West in medieval and early Renaissance Christianity, and is also the last great work that can be called Classical.1 7 Consolation of Philosophy - Consolation of Philosophy. ...

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April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). There are 263 days remaining. April 12 - Events. 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire 1606 - The Union Jack is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain. 1633 - The formal interrogation by the Inquisition of Galileo Galilei begins. 1861 - American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the ...

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Seneca has several significant meanings: Seneca the Elder, Roman orator Seneca the Younger, the elder Seneca's son, Roman philosopher ordered to commit suicide by Nero Seneca tribe Seneca crater on the moon Seneca College, Toronto, Ontario USS Seneca, U.S. Navy ships Seneca Foods, maker of apple chips. Places in the United States of America: Seneca, Kansas Seneca, New York Seneca, Pennsylvania Seneca, South C

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Saturnalia was the feast at which the the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of the god Saturn, which took place on 17 December. Over the years, it expanded to a whole week, up to 23 December. In the vagaring Roman calendar the Winter Solstice fell in this period; in imperial times that event was celebrated in honour of Sol Invictus and put on 25 December by emperor Aurelian in 274, so after the Saturnalia. Saturnalia - Origins. The Saturnalia originally were celebrated with a public banquet. ...

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49 - Events. Emperor Claudius marries his niece Agrippina the younger (approximate date). Seneca the Younger becomes Nero's tutor. Melankomas is the boxing champion at the 207th Olympic Games. The New Testament book Paul's Epistle to the Galatians is probably written. 49 - Births. 49 - Deaths. Category: 49 ...

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41 - Events. January 24 - Claudius succeeds his nephew Caligula as Roman Emperor. Claudius makes Agrippa king of Judea. Messalina, wife of Claudius, persuaded Claudius to have Seneca the Younger banished to Corsica on a charge of adultery with Julia Livilla. 41 - Births. Octavia, daughter of Claudius and Messalina Marcus Valerius Martialis (possible birthdate) 41 - Deaths. January 24 ...

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Boudica (also written Boudicca, Boadicea, Buduica, Bonduca) (d. 60/61) was a queen of the Iceni who led a major uprising of the tribes of south-east Britain against the occupying Roman forces. After her husband, the Icenian king Prasutagus, died, the Romans had annexed his kingdom and brutally humiliated Boudica and her daughters. She destroyed the cities of Colchester, London and St Albans, causing the emperor Nero to consider withdrawing from the island; but the governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus defeated ...

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An Imperial cult is a cult in which an Emperor, or a dynasty of emperors, are worshipped as demigods or deities. Imperial cult - Ancient Rome. Roman Mythology Jupiter Mars Quirinus Divus Julius Divus Augustus Juno Vesta Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Diana Lares Fortuna Aeneas Romulus Numa Early Kin ...

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Stoicism is a school of philosophy founded (308 BC) in Athens by Zeno of Citium (Cyprus). It teaches self-control and detachment from distracting emotions, sometimes interpreted as an indifference to pleasure or pain. This allows one to be a clear thinker, levelheaded and unbiased. In practice, Stoicism is intended to imbue an individual with virtue, wisdom, and integrity of character. Students are encouraged to help those in need, knowing that those who can, should. Stoicism also teaches psychological independence from society, regarding ...

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations
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The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 AD to 100 AD, or from 0 to 99 in a more scientific notation (using a year zero), as in astronomical year numbering. 1st century - Events. 1–Beginning of Christianity, the birth of Jesus of Nazareth Spread of the Roman Empire Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh 70: destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans under Vespasian Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Moun ...

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The success of his countrymen may have been what motivated Martial to move to Rome, once he had completed his education, in 64, where Seneca the Younger and Lucan were probably his first patrons. Of the details of his life for the first twenty years or so after he came to Rome we do not know much. He published some juvenile poems of which he thought very little in his maturer years, and he laughs at a foolish bookseller who would not allow them to die a natural death (i. 113). Martial had neither youthful passion nor youthful enthusia ...

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