Medieval writers and works ( such as the Golden Legend, which erroneously has Nero as a witness to his suicide ) believed Seneca had been converted to the Christian faith by Saint Paul, and early humanists regarded his fatal bath as a kind of disguised baptism.

The Seneca called the land around this canyon " Seh-ga-hun-da ", the " Vale of the three falls "; the Middle Falls (" Ska-ga-dee ") was believed to be so wondrous it made the sun stop at midday.

Seneca Falls is believed by some to have been the inspiration for the fictional town of " Bedford Falls, N. Y ." portrayed in filmmaker Frank Capra's classic 1940s film " It's a Wonderful Life ".

Buffalo Creek is believed to have been held by the Neutral Nation prior to the 1650s, when the Seneca nation and its allies conquered the territory during the Beaver Wars.

Conneaut is a word of disputed meaning, believed to come from the language of the Seneca tribe of Native Americans.

The name " Honeoye " is believed to have originated from the Seneca word " Ha-ne-a-yeh " or " lying finger " which described the lake that now shares the same name as the hamlet.

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, Roman statesman ( d. AD 65 )

* 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.

* 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 Army Depot – The north part of the former army supply depot is an institutional residence for youth.

Sullivan's Expedition marched up the Susquehanna to Elmira, pushing the Seneca to Fort Niagara ; despite a costly manoeuvre that led the whole of the army straight into a swamp, which they forded nearly twenty times before arriving at Cathrine ’ s town, from this point on, with the league undeniably dissolved, the nation settled in new villages along Buffalo Creek, Tonawanda Creek, and Cattaraugus Creek in western New York.

In 1687 the Marquis de Denonville began a campaign against the Iroquois and gathered an army to travel into the Seneca territory south of Lake Ontario.

Years later, in 1790, the Seneca chief Cornplanter told President Washington: " When your army entered the country of the Six Nations, we called you Town Destroyer ," a title that some Iroquois still use to describe any President of the United States.

South Carolina's Governor Lyttelton raised an army of 1, 100 men and marched on the Lower Towns ( Seneca Town was the closest ), which quickly agreed to peace.

The French were leading an army from Canada to annihilate the Seneca and eliminate them as competitors in the international fur trade, known as the Beaver Wars.

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.

Because he was proclaimed Emperor on the initiative of the Praetorian Guard instead of the Senate — the first Emperor thus proclaimed — Claudius ' repute suffered at the hands of commentators ( such as Seneca ).

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.

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 was almost put to death by Caligula in AD 39 likely due to his associations with conspirators.

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.

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.

Aulus Gellius mentions how the discussion of such paradoxes was considered ( for him ) after-dinner entertainment at the Saturnalia, but Seneca, on the other hand, considered them a waste of time: " Not to know them does no harm, and mastering them does no good.

In 1848, Douglass was the only African American to attend the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention.

In fact, it has been recognized since 1813 that the bust was not of Seneca, when an inscribed herma portrait of Seneca with quite different features was discovered.

After mentioning that this fish was sacred to Hecate, Alan Davidson writes, " Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny, Seneca and Suetonius have left abundant and interesting testimony to the red mullet fever which began to affect wealthy Romans during the last years of the Republic and really gripped them in the early Empire.

Calvin's first published work was a commentary of Seneca the Younger's De Clementia.

In 2005, Lin was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.

In 1851, on a street in Seneca Falls, Anthony was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton by a mutual acquaintance, as well as fellow feminist Amelia Bloomer.

The east side of Seneca Lake was once home to a military training ground called Sampson Naval Base, primarily used during World War II.

After Sampson AFB closed, the airfield remained as Seneca Army Airfield but was closed in 2000.

** Seneca Village, a former settlement in Manhattan that was displaced to create Central Park

The convention was held in: Seneca Falls, New York, now known as the Seneca Falls Convention.