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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.
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.

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