Seneca the Younger

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) (c. 4 BC – AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. He was later executed by that emperor for complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate this last of the Julio-Claudian emperors; however, he may have been innocent. Miriam Griffin sa... more

Date of birth:

  • 4 B.C.E.

Date of death:

  • 65 C.E. (age 68 years)

Place of birth:

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Also known as:

  • Seneca,
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca,
  • Lucius Seneca
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