A report on Seneca the Younger
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.
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Baiae
1 linksAncient 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.
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 (Seneca)
0 linksOedipus 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
0 linksRoman 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
2 linksGreek 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.
He wrote some fifty works, of which only fragments have survived preserved by writers such as Diogenes Laërtius, Stobaeus, Cicero, Seneca and Plutarch.
Agamemnon (Seneca)
0 linksAgamemnon 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.
Virtue
1 linksMoral excellence.
Moral excellence.
Seneca, the Roman Stoic, said that perfect prudence is indistinguishable from perfect virtue.
Hercules Oetaeus
0 linksHercules 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.
Troades (Seneca)
0 linksTroades is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of c. 1179 lines of verse written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
School of the Sextii
1 linksRoman 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.
De Beneficiis
0 linksDe Beneficiis (English: On Benefits) is a first-century work by Seneca the Younger.