A report on Seneca the Younger

Ancient bust of Seneca, part of the Double Herm of Socrates and Seneca
Modern statue of Seneca in Córdoba
Nero and Seneca, by Eduardo Barrón (1904). Museo del Prado
Manuel Domínguez Sánchez, The suicide of Seneca (1871), Museo del Prado
Lodovico Lana, Death of Seneca, National Gallery of Art
First page of the Naturales Quaestiones, made for the Catalan-Aragonese court
Woodcut illustration of the suicide of Seneca and the attempted suicide of his wife Pompeia Paulina
Naturales quaestiones, 1522
Plato, Seneca, and Aristotle in a medieval manuscript illustration (c. 1325–35)
The "Pseudo-Seneca", a Roman bust found at Herculaneum, one of a series of similar sculptures known since the Renaissance, once identified as Seneca. Now commonly identified as Hesiod
"Seneca", ancient hero of the modern Córdoba; this architectural roundel in Seville is based on the "Pseudo-Seneca" (illustration above)
Baroque marble imaginary portrait bust of Seneca, by an anonymous sculptor of the 17th century. Museo del Prado

Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.

- Seneca the Younger
Ancient bust of Seneca, part of the Double Herm of Socrates and Seneca

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Thermal baths of the sector of Sosandra

Baiae

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Ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples and now in the comune of Bacoli.

Ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples and now in the comune of Bacoli.

Thermal baths of the sector of Sosandra
Satellite view of area
Temple of Mercury
Temple of Diana
"Temple of Mercury" which has remarkable acoustic properties
Temple of Venus
Villa of the Ambulatio
Sector of Sosandra
Mosaic in the baths of Venus

In the 1st century, "Baiae and Vice" formed one of the moral epistles written by Seneca the Younger; he described it as a "vortex of luxury" and a "harbour of vice" where girls went to play at being girls, old women as girls and some men as girls according to a first century BC wag.

Oedipus with the bodies of Jocasta and his sons, painting by Oscar-Pierre Mathieu (1871, private collection)

Oedipus (Seneca)

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Oedipus with the bodies of Jocasta and his sons, painting by Oscar-Pierre Mathieu (1871, private collection)

Oedipus is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragic play with Greek subject) of c. 1061 lines of verse that was written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca at some time during the 1st century AD. It is a retelling of the story of Oedipus, which is better known through the play Oedipus Rex by the Athenian playwright, Sophocles.

Gaius Galerius

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Roman eques who was active during the reign of Tiberius.

Roman eques who was active during the reign of Tiberius.

He has been identified as the husband of the sister of Helvia, mother of Seneca the Younger.

Cleanthes, engraving from 1605

Cleanthes

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Greek Stoic philosopher and boxer who was the successor to Zeno of Citium as the second head (scholarch) of the Stoic school in Athens.

Greek Stoic philosopher and boxer who was the successor to Zeno of Citium as the second head (scholarch) of the Stoic school in Athens.

Cleanthes, engraving from 1605

He wrote some fifty works, of which only fragments have survived preserved by writers such as Diogenes Laërtius, Stobaeus, Cicero, Seneca and Plutarch.

Clytemnestra after the murder of Agamemnon (John Collier, 1882)

Agamemnon (Seneca)

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Clytemnestra after the murder of Agamemnon (John Collier, 1882)

Agamemnon is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of c. 1012 lines of verse written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca in the first century AD, which tells the story of Agamemnon, who was killed by his wife Clytemnestra in his palace after his return from Troy.

Cardinal and Theological Virtues by Raphael, 1511

Virtue

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Moral excellence.

Moral excellence.

Cardinal and Theological Virtues by Raphael, 1511
Maat, to ancient Egyptians, personified the virtue of truth and justice. Her feather represents truth.
Personification of virtue (Greek Ἀρετή) in Celsus Library in Ephesos, Turkey
Valluvar (Statue at SOAS, University of London).
Virtues fighting vices, stained glass window (14th century) in the Niederhaslach Church
Parshwanatha, the torch bearer of ahimsa.
Virtue, spear in hand, with her foot on the prostrate form of Tyranny on the Great Seal of Virginia

Seneca, the Roman Stoic, said that perfect prudence is indistinguishable from perfect virtue.

Hercules on the Pyre looked on by Philoctetes, (Ivan Akimov, 1782)

Hercules Oetaeus

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Hercules on the Pyre looked on by Philoctetes, (Ivan Akimov, 1782)

Hercules Oetaeus (Hercules on Mount Oeta) is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of c. 1996 lines of verse which survived as one of Lucius Annaeus Seneca's tragedies.

Sacrifice of Polyxena (Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, 17th-century)

Troades (Seneca)

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Sacrifice of Polyxena (Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, 17th-century)

Troades is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of c. 1179 lines of verse written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

School of the Sextii

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Roman school of philosophy.

Roman school of philosophy.

While Seneca the Younger conflates the school with Stoicism, the Sextians were not as inclined to rigorous logical exercises or any abstruse abstract thinking.

From the 1643 edition, published by Francesco Baba

De Beneficiis

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From the 1643 edition, published by Francesco Baba

De Beneficiis (English: On Benefits) is a first-century work by Seneca the Younger.