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.

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.

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

Seneca's Apocolocyntosis reinforces the view of Claudius as an unpleasant fool and this remained the official view for the duration of Nero's reign.

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

However, " his plays continued to be applauded even after those of Aeschylus and Sophocles had come to seem remote and irrelevant ", they became school classics in the Hellenistic period ( as mentioned in the introduction ) and, due to Seneca's adaptation of his work for Roman audiences, " it was Euripides, not Aeschylus or Sophocles, whose tragic muse presided over the rebirth of tragedy in Renaissance Europe.

Seneca's " vital spot " seems to have meant the neck.

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

Seneca's tragedies greatly influenced the growth of tragic drama in Europe.

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.

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.

Seneca's tragedies rework those of all three of the Athenian tragic playwrights whose work has survived.

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

Galen repeats Seneca's points but adds a new one: finding a guide and teacher can help the person in controlling their passions.

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.

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

According to it, Nero ordered Seneca's wife to be saved.

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.

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.

" We are therefore left with no contemporary record of Seneca's life, save for the desperate opinion of Publius Suilius.

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.

Examination of Seneca's life and thought in relation to contemporary education and to the psychology of emotions is revealing a relevance of his thought.

Specifically devoting a chapter to his treatment of anger and its management she shows Seneca's appreciation of the damaging role of uncontrolled anger, and its pathological connections.

Nussbaum later extended her examination to Seneca's contribution to political philosophy showing considerable subtlety and richness in his thoughts about politics, education and notions of global citizenship and finding a basis for reform minded education in Seneca's ideas that allows her to propose a mode of modern education which steers clear of both narrow traditionalism and total rejection of tradition.

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

Van Vogt and his wife opened their own Dianetics centre, partly financed by his writings, until he " signed off " around 1961.

The Bahá ' í writings also state there are distinctions between souls in the afterlife, and that souls will recognize the worth of their own deeds and understand the consequences of their actions.

He relied on his own experiences, contemporary writings about Napoleon, and on historical sources.

Many, if not all, of his writings had bits and pieces of his own personal life in them or were written for personal reasons.

Others are known only from mentions in Clement's own writings, including On Marriage and On Prophecy, although few are attested by other writers and it is difficult to separate works which he intended to write from those which were actually completed.

The writings always have the central message of the bible ; Cyril doesn ’ t try to add his own beliefs in reference to religious interpretation and remains grounded in true biblical teachings.

Although in later life he prided himself on always publishing his work under his own name, in the late nineteenth century he appears to have used pseudonyms such as and in some of his published writings.

Aristotle applied this distinction to his own writings.

The library's biblical and theological contents were more impressive: Origen's Hexapla and Tetrapla, a copy of the original Hebrew Version of the Gospel of MattitYahu, and many of Origen's own writings.

Nevertheless, a number of esoteric groups have continued to claim Bulwer-Lytton as their own, chiefly because some of his writings — such as the 1842 book Zanoni — have included Rosicrucian and other esoteric notions.

Francis Bacon's influence can also be seen on a variety of religious and spiritual authors, and on groups that have utilised his writings in their own belief systems.

In his theoretical and critical writings on the subject — as in his own plays — he tried to contribute to the development of a new bourgeois theatre in Germany.

He brought both his own writings and those of Peter.

These writings, in the words of Henry Cadbury, Professor of Divinity at Harvard University and a leading Quaker, " contain a few fresh phrases of his own, are generally characterized by an excess of scriptural language and today they seem dull and repetitious ".

Many who have no love for Puritan doctrine, nor sympathy with Puritan experience, have appreciated the pathos and beauty of his writings, and his Looking to Jesus long held its own in popular appreciation with the writings of John Bunyan.

So I, Feral Faun, became ... an anarchist ... a writer ... a Stirner-influenced, post-situationist, anti-civilization theorist ... if not in my own eyes, at least in the eyes of most people who've read my writings.

He described Gnostic groups as sexual libertines, for example, when some of their own writings advocated chastity more strongly than did orthodox texts-yet the gnostic texts cannot be taken as guides to their actual practices, about which almost nothing is reliably known today.

Much of Caesar's life is known from his own accounts of his military campaigns, and from other contemporary sources, mainly the letters and speeches of Cicero and the historical writings of Sallust.

The earliest secure reference to this passage is found in the writings of the fourth-century Christian apologist and historian Eusebius, who used Josephus ' works extensively as a source for his own Historia Ecclesiastica.

A final argument from silence relates to Josephus ' own writings and questions the authenticity of Testimonium based on the fact that it has no parallel in the Jewish War, which includes a discussion of Pontius Pilate at about the same level of detail.

Most of what is known about the life of Justin Martyr comes from his own writings.

Aside from these, thereafter there is no eyewitness to events in Jerusalem until William of Tyre, archbishop of Tyre and chancellor of Jerusalem, who began writing around 1167 and died around 1184, although he includes much information about the First Crusade and the intervening years from the death of Fulcher to his own time, drawn mainly from the writings of Albert of Aix and Fulcher himself.

While it is the core text on laws of the religion, it is not the exclusive source of laws in the religion, nor of Bahá ' u ' lláh's own writings, and complimentarily the reader is told explicitly to not view the text as a " mere code of laws ".

The Khitan, however, had two scripts of their own and many Mongolic words are found in their half-deciphered writings that are usually found with a parallel Chinese text ( for example, nair = sun, sair = moon, tau = five, jau = hundred, m. r = horse, im. a = goat, n. q = dog, m. ng = silver, ju. un = summer, n. am. ur = autumn, u. ul = winter, heu. ur = spring, tau. l. a = rabbit, t. q. a = hen and m. g. o = snake ).