![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His prose works include a dozen essays and one hundred twenty-four letters dealing with moral issues. His stoic and calm suicide has become the subject of numerous paintings.Īs a writer Seneca is known for his philosophical works, and for his plays, which are all tragedies. Seneca's influence over Nero declined with time, and in 65 Seneca was forced to take his own life for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, in which he was likely to have been innocent. When Nero became emperor in 54, Seneca became his advisor and, together with the praetorian prefect Sextus Afranius Burrus, provided competent government for the first five years of Nero's reign. In AD 41, Seneca was exiled to the island of Corsica under emperor Claudius, but was allowed to return in 49 to become a tutor to Nero. His father was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lucan. Seneca was born in Cordoba in Hispania, and raised in Rome, where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy. 4 BC AD 65), usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist from the Silver Age of Latin literature. ![]()
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