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Seneca - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) was a wealthy philosopher, orator and playwright. The tragedies of Seneca may never have been meant for the stage. He was also Nero's teacher.
  1. Apocolocyntosis

Seneca Quotes

Learn to quote from Seneca with this selection of quotes about the philosopher's idea of the good man.

Seneca's Healthy Mind, Healthy Body

Seneca refers to a variety of sports in his philosophical writing because they were familiar to his audience and because he thought exercise was good, so long as it wasn't an end in itself.

Suicide of Seneca - Resources on the Suicide of Seneca

Information on the suicide of Seneca.

Seneca Quotations - Some English Translations of Seneca Quotations

English translations of some Seneca quotations.

Seneca

Seneca is a Roman philosopher and writer of tragedy and satire who taught Nero.

Oedipus of Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Michael Rutenberg brings Seneca's version of the Sophoclean tragedy about the incestuous king to life for modern audiences.

Seneca - A Thinker For Our Times

The philosophy and tragedy of Seneca the Roman philosopher and dramatist.

Seneca - Healthy Mind Healthy Body

Seneca refers to a variety of sports in his philosophical writing because they were familiar to his audience and because he thought exercise was good, so long as it wasn't an end in itself.

Seneca - Biography and Resources

Basic information on Seneca.

Seneca's Oedipus

Michael Rutenberg brings Seneca's version of the Sophoclean tragedy about the incestuous king to life for modern audiences

Seneca's Stoic Ethics

Sanderson Beck reviews the subject matter of the major philosophical works.

Seneca On Tranquillity of Mind 9.4ff

Squandering money on books for show is no less wasteful than any other extravagance.

261. Seneca to his mother. Corsica A.D. 41/9.

Seneca urges and coaxes his mother not to succumb to womanish ways by grieving.

Seneca Epistles 7: The Gladiatorial Games

Throwing men to the lions was nothing compared with the savage butchery of the games complains Seneca.

L. Annaei Senecae Opera

The works of Seneca in Latin. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, de Tranquillitate Animi, de Vita Beata, Apocolocyntosis, Medea, and Proverbs.

Hispania

Hispania was home to many important Roman writers, including Seneca.

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