By 1532, Calvin received his licentiate in law and published his first book, a commentary on Seneca's De Clementia.

With Luigi Squarzina in 1952 he co-founded and co-directed the Teatro d ' Arte Italiano, producing the first complete version of Hamlet in Italy, then rare works such as Seneca's Thyestes and Aeschylus's The Persians.

Titus ' revenge may also have been influenced by Seneca's play Thyestes, written in the first century AD.

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.

Seneca's influence was said to be especially strong in the first year.

Nine of Seneca's tragedies survive, all of which are fabula crepidata ( tragedies adapted from Greek originals ); his Phaedra, for example, was based on Euripides ' Hippolytus.

In Seneca's version of The Trojan Women, the prophet Calchas declares that Astyanax must be thrown from the walls if the Greek fleet is to be allowed favorable winds ( 365 – 70 ), but once led to the tower, the child himself leaps off the walls ( 1100 – 3 ).

Yet Seneca's own writing for fictitious speakers and situations aims above all at a striking effect on the audience and is characterized by " mannerism ", " exaggerated use of the colores " and " use of a brilliant, precious style, one that has recourse to all the artifices of Asianism, from the accumulation of the rhetorical figures to densely epigrammatic expression to care over the rhythm of the period.

Of this we learn something from the younger Seneca's De vita patris ( H. Peter, Historicorum Romanorum fragmenta, 1883, pp. 292, 301 ), of which the beginning was discovered by Barthold Georg Niebuhr.

The information we have about Lucilius comes from Seneca's writings, especially his Moral Letters which are addressed to Lucilius.

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.

On finishing the translation of Seneca's De Beneficiis in 1418, he initiated his extensive travels throughout Europe, which would keep him away from Portugal for the next ten years.

It would make sense that Seneca's position of power would make him vulnerable to trumped-up charges, as many public figures were at the time.

Many scholars have thought, following the ideas of the 19th century German scholar Leo, that Seneca's tragedies were written for recitation only.

Other scholars think that they were written for performance and that it is possible that actual performance had taken place in Seneca's lifetime.

Seneca's plays were widely read in medieval and Renaissance European universities and strongly influenced tragic drama in that time, such as Elizabethan England ( Shakespeare and other playwrights ), France ( Corneille and Racine ), and the Netherlands ( Joost van den Vondel ).

It is claimed by Tacitus that Agrippina exercised some erotic power over her son and that Acte advised Nero to resist this power, out of fear for her own safety and with Seneca's encouragement ; she warned Nero of the potential political repercussions with the military if incest with his mother were to become public.

It is still unclear if Seneca's plays were performed or recited during Roman times ; at any rate, Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights staged them, as it were, with a vengeance, in plays full of gruesome and often darkly comic violence.

Seneca's account that " Virgil ... aimed, not to teach the farmer, but to please the reader ," underlines that Virgil's poetic and philosophic themes were abounding in his hexameters ( Sen., Moral Letter 86. 15 ).

Regardless of whether the Monte Cassino manuscripts were moved to Florence by Boccaccio or dal Strada, Boccaccio made use of the Annals when he wrote Commento di Dante c. 1374, giving an account of Seneca's death directly based on the Tacitean account in Annals book 15.

In Seneca's plays such scenes were only acted by the characters.

Seneca's various works give mostly scattered anecdotes on Caligula's personality.

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

On this first venture the central storage is 20,000 gallons, in two tanks, or an average of 400 gallons for each of the 50 homes.

The first Ancestral Puebloan homes and villages were based on the pit-house, a common feature in the Basketmaker periods.

For example, the General Mills Betty Crocker's Cookbook, first published in 1950 and currently in its 10th edition, is commonly found in American homes.

One of his first acts was to allow those peoples exiled by the Babylonians ( the Jews, among other captive peoples ) to return to their respective homes.

The 2004 report claimed that the channel outperformed Sky News in both weekly and monthly reach in multichannel homes for the January 2004 period, and for the first time in two years moved ahead of Sky News in being perceived as the channel best for news.

Although the Attlee Government failed to meet its targets, primarily due to economic constraints, over a million new homes were built between 1945 and 1951 ( a significant achievement under the circumstances ) which ensured that decent, affordable housing was available to many low-income families for the first time ever.

Members of the Children of God founded communes, first called " colonies " but now referred to as " homes ," in various cities.

Though at first seen as a data collection and outcome reporting tool, the use of computer technology in the classrooms, meeting areas, and homes continued to unfold.

After the office in the Stowe home, ( and after the first concert fund-raiser ) Greenpeace functions moved to other private homes and held public meetings weekly on Wednesday nights at the Kitsilano Neighborhood House before settling, in the fall of 1974, in a small office shared with the SPEC environmental group, at 2007 W. 4th Avenue, at Maple Street, across from the Bimini neighbourhood pub.

The festival is observed in Jewish homes by the kindling of lights on each of the festival's eight nights, one on the first night, two on the second night and so on.

These represent the first example of portraiture in art history, and it is thought that they were kept in people's homes while the bodies were buried.

Its empirical standards applied in one of the first and certainly strongest homes for serious textual criticism.

The first crusaders usually arrived to fight during the spring and returned to their homes in the autumn.

Author Bill Cherry proposed George Roy Clough as the first to invite listeners to argue politics on a call-in radio show at KLUF, his station in Galveston, Texas, as a way to bring his own political views into listeners ' homes.

In the first few days, between 5, 000 and 15, 000 Arabs and Asians were murdered, women were raped and their homes burned.

* April 7-The American Research Bureau reports that the I Love Lucy episode, " The Marriage License " was the first TV show in history to be seen in around 10, 000, 000 homes the evening the episode aired.

The main village, closest to downtown, is where the first homes were constructed.

The earliest projects for preserving historic homes began in the 1850s under the direction of individuals concerned with the public good and the preservation of American history, especially centered on the first president.

One of the first acts of Cyrus accordingly was to allow these exiles to return to their own homes, carrying with them the images of their god and their sacred vessels.

Gas was more expensive than coal, though, and thus the new technology was first installed in the wealthier homes.

The first humans are therefore thought to have made their homes among the southern valleys of California's coastal mountain ranges some 10, 000 to 12, 000 years ago, with the earliest of these people known only from archaeological evidence.

Families whose homes are weatherized are expected to save $ 358 on their first year's utility bills.

" Murphy was instrumental in developing the first water system to supply the western reaches of the city, and also played a key role in encouraging the design of fine homes in the 1930s and 1940s that ultimately would establish Oswego as an attractive place to live.

In 1536 his first son, Thomas ( later 4th Duke of Norfolk ), was born, Anne Boleyn was executed on charges of adultery and treason, and the Duke of Richmond died at the age of 17 and was buried at one of the Howard homes, Thetford Abbey.

Before the first small farm homes had been sold, Bud Wright's wife, Emily Vose Wright, a deeply religious woman, had christened the development Zelzah, a Biblical name for " oasis ," or " watering place in the desert.