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Cassius Dio says that Roman financiers, including Seneca the Younger, chose this time to call in their loans.
The Roman exile, Seneca the younger, reports that both coast and interior were occupied by natives whose language he did not understand ( see under Prehistory of Corsica ).
The Roman bronze bust, the so-called Pseudo-Seneca, of the late first century BC found at Herculaneum is now thought not to be of Seneca the Younger.
The " liberal arts " or " liberal pursuits " ( Latin liberalia studia ) were already so called in formal education during the Roman Empire ; for example, Seneca the Younger discusses liberal arts in education from a critical Stoic point of view in Moral Epistle 88.
Among the best known Roman Stoics were philosopher Seneca and the emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Seneca, a wealthy Roman patrician, is often criticized by some modern commentators for failing to adequately live by his own precepts.
* Seneca the Younger ( Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 BC – 65 AD ), Roman philosopher and playwright, tutor and advisor of Nero
* Seneca the Elder ( 54 BC – 39 AD ), Roman orator and writer, father of the above
In a version by Seneca, the Roman playwright, entitled Phaedra, after Phaedra told Theseus that Hippolytus had raped her, Theseus killed his son himself, and Phaedra committed suicide out of guilt, for she had not intended for Hippolytus to die.
* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo arrives in the East and take up an assignment as governor of Asia, with a secret brief from Nero and his chief ministers Seneca and Burrus to return Armenia to the Roman Empire.
* Seneca the Elder, Roman rhetorician
** Seneca the Younger, Roman statesman ( d. AD 65 )
* Seneca the Younger, Roman statesman, philosopher, and tutor of Nero
* Seneca the Elder, Roman orator ( c. 54 BC ) ( d. c. AD 39 )
In one of a few exceptions to the rule that Black Roman literature was essentially superficial imitation of Greek works, the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote several closet-drama tragedies in exile, never meant for live performance.
Seneca, the Roman Stoic, said that perfect prudence is indistinguishable from perfect virtue.
* Seneca the Elder ( approximate date ), Roman rhetor ( d. c. 39 AD )
Historians do not know who wrote the only extant example of the fabula praetexta ( tragedies based on Roman subjects ), Octavia, but in former times it was mistakenly attributed to Seneca due to his appearance as a character in the tragedy.
Due to his devotion to her, Messalina was able to manipulate Claudius into ordering the exile or execution of various people: the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger ; Claudius ’ nieces Julia Livilla and Julia ; Marcus Vinicius ( husband of Julia Livilla ); consul Gaius Asinius Pollio II ( see Vipsania Agrippina ); the elder Poppaea Sabina ( mother of Empress Poppaea Sabina, second wife of Nero ); consul Decimus Valerius Asiaticus ; and Polybius.
" Seneca believed that the disciplined Roman army was regularly able to beat the Germans, who were known for their fury.
* Octavia ( play ), a tragedy mistakenly attributed to the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger that dramatises Claudia Octavia's death
Seneca spent his exile in philosophical and natural study ( a life counseled by Roman Stoic thought ) and wrote the Consolations.

Seneca and statesman
The similarity to the name of the Roman statesman Seneca is entirely coincidental.

Seneca and d
** Jasper Heywood, English translator of Seneca ( d. 1598 )
While Poseidonius's accounts have not survived, the writings of these tertiary sources do: Vitruvius Pollio ( a contemporary of Caesar Augustus ), Pliny the Elder ( d. 79 AD ), and Seneca the Younger ( d. 65 AD ).
He married Louise von Plessen ( 1827 – 1875 ), daughter of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Governor ( Großherzoglich Mecklenburgischen Oberlanddrost ) Ulrich von Plessen und great-granddaughter of Baron ( Reichsfreiherr ) Seneca von Gelting ( 1715 – 1786 ), who was married to a nice of Johannes Thedens and had become highly wealthy as chargé d ' affaires of the Dutch East India Company in Cirebon.

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Among the victims of Messalina's intrigues were Agrippina's surviving sister Livilla, who was charged with having adultery with Seneca the Younger.
Seneca was later called back from exile to be a tutor to Nero.
Agrippina and Claudius betrothed Nero to Octavia, and Agrippina arranged to have Seneca the Younger return from exile to tutor the future emperor.
The fall of Pallas and the opposition of Burrus and Seneca, contributed to Agrippina's loss of authority.
Most of the other light aircraft acquired by the FABF in the 1970s and 1980s have also now been retired along with the Mi-4 helicopters, but some recent acquisitions have been made, including a Beechcraft King Air, a Piper PA-34 Seneca, a CEAPR Robin light training aircraft, and a single Air Tractor AT-802 aerial sprayer aircraft for spraying insecticides, purchased after the northern part of the country suffered heavy crop damage from a 2004 invasion of swarming locusts.
Journalist Bee Wilson states that the image of a community of honey bees " occurs from ancient to modern times, in Aristotle and Plato ; in Virgil and Seneca ; in Erasmus and Shakespeare ; Tolstoy, as well as by social theorists Bernard Mandeville and Karl Marx.
The Consolation of Philosophy stands, by its note of fatalism and its affinities with the Christian doctrine of humility, midway between the pagan philosophy of Seneca the Younger and the later Christian philosophy of consolation represented by Thomas Aquinas.
The results of all these efforts were recognized even by Seneca, who has an ancient Latin god defend Claudius in his satire.
The Stoic Seneca states in his Apocolocyntosis that Claudius ' voice belonged to no land animal, and that his hands were weak as well ; however, he showed no physical deformity, as Suetonius notes that when calm and seated he was a tall, well-built figure of dignitas.
Cayuga Lake ( or )&# 160 ; is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area ( marginally smaller than Seneca Lake ) and second largest in volume.
It is connected to Lake Ontario by the Erie Canal and Seneca Lake by the Seneca River.
Cayuga Lake, like nearby Seneca Lake, is also the site of a phenomenon known as the Guns of the Seneca, mysterious cannon-like booms heard in the surrounding area.
A brief famine of an unknown size occurred, perhaps caused by this financial crisis, but according to Suetonius a result of Caligula's seizure of public carriages, according to Seneca because grain imports were disturbed by Caligula using boats for a pontoon bridge.
The contemporary sources, Philo of Alexandria and Seneca the Younger, describe an insane emperor who was self-absorbed, angry, killed on a whim, and who indulged in too much spending and sex.
The history of Caligula's reign is extremely problematic as only two sources contemporary with Caligula have survived — the works of Philo and Seneca.
Seneca was almost put to death by Caligula in AD 39 likely due to his associations with conspirators.
Nonetheless, these lost primary sources, along with the works of Seneca and Philo, were the basis of surviving secondary and tertiary histories on Caligula written by the next generations of historians.
Fabius Rusticus was a friend of Seneca who was known for historical embellishment and misrepresentation.
Philo of Alexandria, Josephus and Seneca state that Caligula was insane, but describe this madness as a personality trait that came through experience.
Seneca states that Caligula became arrogant, angry and insulting once becoming emperor and uses his personality flaws as examples his readers can learn from.
In 2000 Eastman was inducted in the ( American ) National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.
Eisenhower College was a small, liberal arts college chartered in Seneca Falls, New York in 1965, with classes beginning in 1968.

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