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.

* Seneca the Younger

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.

The luxury of his gardens and villas incurred the displeasure of Seneca the Younger.

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.

* Seneca the Younger ( Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 BC – 65 AD ), Roman philosopher and playwright, tutor and advisor of Nero

* Seneca the Younger

* Messalina, wife of Claudius, persuades Claudius to have Seneca the Younger banished to Corsica on a charge of adultery with Julia Livilla.

* Seneca the Younger becomes Nero's tutor.

** Seneca the Younger, Roman statesman ( d. AD 65 )

* Seneca the Younger, Roman statesman, philosopher, and tutor of Nero

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.

This belief was affirmed by Seneca the Younger in his Phaedra and by Virgil in his Georgics.

** Seneca the Younger

One of his revisionist modern biographers, however, Miriam Griffin says in her biography of Seneca that " the evidence for Seneca's life before his exile in 41 is so slight, and the potential interest of these years, for social history as well as for biography, is so great that few writers on Seneca have resisted the temptation to eke out knowledge with imagination.

Caligula began his first year as emperor in 38, and there was a severe conflict between him and Seneca ; the emperor is said to have spared his life only because he expected Seneca's natural life to be near its end.

Robin Campbell, a translator of Seneca's letters, writes that the " stock criticism of Seneca right down the centuries been ... the apparent contrast between his philosophical teachings and his practice.

More recent work is changing the dominant perception of Seneca as a mere conduit for pre-existing ideas showing originality in Seneca's contribution to the history of ideas.

Similarly, Eumolpus ' poem on the capture of Troy ( 89 ) has been related to Nero's Troica and to the tragedies of Seneca the Younger, and parody of Seneca's Epistles has been detected in the moralising remarks of characters in the Satyricon.

The epigraph "" ( Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness ) attributed by Poe to Seneca was not found in Seneca's known work.

* Stationer Thomas Marsh publishes Seneca's Tragedies in English, a collected edition of ten dramas written by Seneca the Younger ( or attributed to him ), translated by Jasper Heywood, John Studley, Alexander Neville, Thomas Newton, and Thomas Nuce.

The Seneca River in central New York flows from west to east, from Seneca Lake, through the Montezuma Marsh at the north end of Cayuga Lake to the Seneca's confluence with the Oneida and Oswego rivers at the Three Rivers area north of Syracuse.

The Seneca's have also opened several Indian casinos, the Seneca Niagara Casino in Niagara Falls, New York and one in Salamanca, New York.

When the Tomoka was boarded under cover of the Seneca's guns, I immediately set sail and ran away with the boarding party-one lieutenant, one bos ' n and thirteen seamen-and only upon their pleas did I heave to and put them back on the Seneca.

* Seneca the Younger, Essays To Marcia On Consolation English translation

In the Seneca language, " Nunda " relates to hills and a popular translation is " Where the valley meets the hills ".

While living with his father at the parsonage of Bradfield in 1660 he published a translation from Seneca the Younger, with notes, called ‘ Troades Englished .’ About the same time he published ‘ Poems upon Several Occasions, by S. P., gent .,’ a little volume which included panegyrics on Charles II and General George Monck, but which consisted for the most part of poems in the style of Robert Herrick.

Seneca is the deepest ( 618 feet, 188 m ), followed by Cayuga ( 435 feet, 133 m ), with their bottoms well below sea level.

His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.

Looking south on Seneca Lake in the city of Geneva ( city ), New York | Geneva, New York

* Seneca the Elder ( 54 BC – 39 AD ), Roman orator and writer, father of the above

* Seneca Wallace ( born 1980 ), American football quarterback / wide receiver currently playing for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL

** Seneca Falls ( town ), New York, a city in Seneca County

*** Seneca Falls ( village ), New York, within the town of Seneca Falls

* Seneca, Wisconsin ( disambiguation ), several places

* Seneca Creek ( Potomac River ), in Maryland

* Seneca Creek ( North Fork South Branch Potomac River ), West Virginia

* Seneca Lake ( New York ), the largest of the Finger Lakes

* Seneca River ( New York ), the outlet of Seneca Lake

* Seneca ( crater ), a lunar crater

* Senakah ( formerly Seneca ), an alternative rock band from Limerick, Ireland

* USCGC Seneca ( WMEC-906 ), a United States Coast Guard cutter

* Seneca ( cigarette ), a brand of additive-free cigarettes

General Ely S. Parker ( far left ), a Seneca, was the first Native American to be appointed as Bureau of Indian Affairs | Commissioner of Indian Affairs, serving until 1871.

* Burrus, praetorian prefect ( 51 – 62 AD ), is charged by Seneca with the education of Nero.

It flows west past Coudersport then turns north into western New York, looping westward across southern Cattaraugus County for approximately 30 miles ( 48 km ), past Portville, Olean, St. Bonaventure University and Salamanca and flowing through Seneca Indian Nation lands close to the northern boundary of Allegany State Park before re-entering northwestern Pennsylvania approximately 20 miles ( 32 km ) southeast of Jamestown, New York.