Sénèque

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Seneca was a philosopher of the Stoic school, a playwright and a Roman statesman of the first century. He is sometimes called Seneca the Philosopher, Seneca the Tragic or Seneca the Younger to distinguish him from his father, Seneca the Elder.

Seneca was born in Corduba in Betica (present-day Andalusia). The precise date of his birth is not known, but it is usually at the beginning of our era, between 4 BC and 1 AD.

A counsellor at the imperial court under Caligula, exiled at the advent of Claudius and then recalled as tutor to Nero, Seneca played an important role as advisor to the latter before he was discredited and forced to commit suicide. His philosophical treatises, such as On Anger, On Happy Life and On the Brevity of Life, and above all his Letters to Lucilius, set out his Stoic philosophical conceptions.

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