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* Seneca the Younger ( Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 BC – 65 AD ), Roman philosopher and playwright, tutor and advisor of Nero
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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.
Agrippina and Claudius betrothed Nero to Octavia, and Agrippina arranged to have Seneca the Younger return from exile to tutor the future emperor.
Cassius Dio says that Roman financiers, including Seneca the Younger, chose this time to call in their loans.
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 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 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.
Oberon-V ( originally called Seneca, after Seneca the Younger ) is a descendant of Oberon designed for numerical applications on supercomputers, especially vector or pipelined architectures.
* Messalina, wife of Claudius, persuades Claudius to have Seneca the Younger banished to Corsica on a charge of adultery with Julia Livilla.
Although artists have depicted the figure on a cross with a loin cloth or a covering of the genitals, writings by Seneca the Younger suggest that victims were crucified completely nude.
Josephus describes multiple tortures and positions of crucifixion during the Siege of Jerusalem as Titus crucified the rebels ; and Seneca the Younger recounts: " I see crosses there, not just of one kind but made in many different ways: some have their victims with head down to the ground ; some impale their private parts ; others stretch out their arms on the gibbet.
Tertullian mentions a 1st-century AD case in which trees were used for crucifixion, but Seneca the Younger earlier used the phrase infelix lignum ( unfortunate wood ) for the transom (" patibulum ") or the whole cross.
Lucan was the son of Marcus Annaeus Mela and grandson of Seneca the Elder ; he grew up under the tutelage of his uncle Seneca the Younger.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca was born in Cordoba, in the Baetica, the southern highly Romanized province of Spain.
His family was from Cordoba in Hispania ( the Iberian Peninsula ) and, like his father, Lucius Annaeus Seneca " the elder ," he was born there.
He was the second son of Helvia and Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the wealthy rhetorician known as Seneca the Elder.
By his wife Helvia of Corduba, he had three sons: Lucius Annaeus Novatus who was adopted by his father's friend, the rhetorician Lucius Iunius Gallio and was subsequently called Lucius Iunius Gallio Annaeanus ; Seneca the Younger ; and Annaeus Mela, the father of the poet Lucan.
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* Stoicism: Zeno of Citium, Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Crates of Mallus ( brought Stoicism to Rome c. 170 BCE ), Panaetius, Posidonius, Seneca ( Roman ), Epictetus ( Greek / Roman ), Marcus Aurelius ( Roman )
" At the time Seneca wrote his Letters ( c. 65 AD ), Lucilius was the procurator ( and possibly governor ) of Sicily.
Red Jacket ( known as Otetiani in his youth and Sagoyewatha ( Keeper Awake ) Sa-go-ye-wa-tha after 1780 because of his oratorical skills ) ( c. 1750 – January 20, 1830 ) was a Native American Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan.
Guyasuta ( c. 1725 – c. 1794 ) was an important leader of the Seneca people in the second half of the eighteenth century, playing a central role in the diplomacy and warfare of that era.
He is best known as a scholar by his notes on Martial, Ausonius, the Pervigilium Veneris ; editions of the poems of Joseph Justus Scaliger ( Leiden, 1615 ), of the De re militari of Vegetius Renatus, the tragedies of Seneca ( P. Scriverii collectanea veterum tragicorum, 1621 ), & c. His Opera anecdota, philologica, et poetica ( Utrecht, 1738 ) was edited by A. H. Westerhovius, and his Nederduitsche Gedichten ( 1738 ) by S. Dockes.
He brought out versions of Erasmus's De civilitate morum puerilium ( 1532 ), three works by Cicero ( De officiis, 1534 ; Paradoxa, c. 1534 ; and De senectute, c. 1535 ), and three allegedly by Seneca ( The Forme and Rule of Honest Lyvynge, 1546 ; The Myrrour or Glasse of Maners, 1547 ; and De remediis fortuitorum, 1547 ), the Forme and Myrrour actually being the work of Martin of Braga.
Seneca, quoted by Thomas à Kempis, complains that " As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man " ( Imitation, Book I, c. 20 ).
Another women's organization, the Seneca, distinguishes itself as a " 501 ( c )( 3 ) nonprofit women's organization that is often misidentified as a final club.
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