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Seneca
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 4s BCE
- Died
- 12 April 65
- Place of birth
- Corduba
- Place of death
- Rome
- Sex or gender
- male
- Father
- Seneca the Elder
- Mother
- Helvia
- Spouse
- Pompeia Paulina
- Present in work
- The Divine Comedy
- Movement
- stoicism
- Field of work
- ethics, political philosophy
- Occupation
- playwright, poet, philosopher, aphorist, statesperson, politician, writer, naturalist, consul
- Position held
- ancient Roman senator
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- cause of death
- exsanguination
- cognomen
- Seneca
- depicted by
- Portrait of so-called Seneca, PMT 77
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1870 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, De viris illustribus, Pauly–Wissowa, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- gens
- Annaea gens
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art
- influenced by
- Publilius Syrus, Attalus, Euripides
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Latin, Ancient Greek
- manner of death
- forced suicide, capital punishment
- name in native language
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- nomen gentilicium
- Annaeus
- notable work
- De Vita Beata, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, De ira, De Brevitate Vitae, Medea
- praenomen
- Lucius
- relative
- Lucan
- short name
- Seneca
- student of
- Sotion, Papirius Fabianus
- time period
- Roman Empire
- topic's main category
- Category:Seneca the Younger
- work location
- Rome
- writing language
- Latin
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