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	Seneca, the elder, c.60 B.C.-c.A.D. 37, Roman rhetorician and writer. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Seneca, the elder, c.60 B.C.-c.A.D. 37, Roman rhetorician and writer.
		Corduba (present-day Córdoba), Spain; grandfather of Lucan and father of Seneca the younger.
		Seneca the elder wrote two major works, the Controversies, a collection of imaginary legal cases as they might be argued before a court of law; and Persuasions, model orations on various subjects.
	www.bartleby.com /65/se/SenecaE.html (180 words)

	Seneca - Crystalinks
		Seneca was also the author of a lost historical work, containing the history of Rome from the beginning of the civil wars almost down to his own death, after which it was published by his son.
		Born in Cordoba, Hispania (in modern Spain), Seneca was the second son of Helvia and Marcus (Lucius) Annaeus Seneca, a wealthy rhetorician known as Seneca the Elder.
		In 65, Seneca was accused of being involved in a plot to murder Nero, the Pisonian conspiracy.
	www.crystalinks.com /seneca.html (1164 words)

	Seneca, the younger, c.3 B.C.-A.D. 65, Roman philosopher, dramatist, and statesman. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth ...
		Seneca, the younger, c.3 B.C.-A.D. 65, Roman philosopher, dramatist, and statesman.
		He was the son of Seneca the elder.
		Seneca was a Stoic, and his writings show a high, unselfish nobility considerably at variance with his own life, in which greed, expediency, and even connivance at murder figured.
	www.bartleby.com /65/se/SenecaY.html (472 words)

	Seneca - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Seneca was also the author of a lost historical work, containing the history of Rome from the beginning of the civil wars almost down to his own death, after which it was published by his son.
		We must, however, regard the general tendency of Seneca's measures; to judge him as a Stoic philosopher by the counsels of perfection laid down in his writings would be much the same thing as to apply the standard of New Testament morality to the career of a Wolsey or Mazarin.
		Seneca is at once the most eminent among the Latin writers of the Silver Age and in a special sense their representative, not least because he was the originator of a false style.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Seneca (2015 words)

	Caesar, Pliny the Elder and Seneca the Younger
		Gaius Plinius Secundus, known as Pliny the elder, was born in Como, in the Po Valley, on the Italian-Swiss border in A.D. Pliny led a well-rounded life and was known as an energetic, rigid, multi-talented man of letters, interested in military history, biology, geography, rhetoric, and oratory.
		Seneca was able to turn his era to his own benefit and became one of the wealthiest men in the Mediterranean world.
		Seneca's greatest strength was in the revival of philosophy in Roman literature; the humanization and vitalization of his stoic writings go against the gladitorial contests, slavery, and cruelty for which the Roman empire was notorious.
	www.roman-empire.net /articles/article-004.html (1067 words)

	Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Seneca was accused of being her lover and condemned to death by the Senate, but his punishment was changed to banishment to Corsica by the Emperor.
		Seneca was to be tutor to Nero, her son and the adopted son of Claudius, and he was appointed praetor for the year 50.
		Seneca's philosophical works are marked by neither originality of thought nor depth of speculation, but rather by enthusiasm of presentation and an understanding of the practical limitations of life and the weaknesses of human nature.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/lucius-annaeus-seneca-the-younger (1397 words)

	Temple of Seneca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He was born Lucius Annaeus Seneca in Córdoba, Spain, the son of the Roman rhetorician Marcus (Lucius) Annaeus Seneca known as Seneca the Elder.
		Seneca is considered one of the outstanding Stoic philosophers of Rome; his interests were chiefly ethical, but his beliefs were more spiritual than those of the earlier Stoics.
		Later dramatists were attracted to Seneca by his ornate and rhetorical style, his regularity of form, his sensational themes of crime, horror, and revenge, his reflective and introspective qualities, and the Stoic fatalism of his characters.
	www.sangha.net /messengers/Seneca.htm (330 words)

	Lucius Annaeus Seneca
		Seneca was Born in Cordova, Spain (then a Roman province), Seneca was the son of a wealthy and distinguished rhetor-a teacher of rhetoric.
		Seneca's elder brother was proconsul of Achaea in AD 51-52 and was the "Gallio" before whose tribunal Paul was brought in Acts.
		Seneca emulated Socrates, describing his sensations as the blood drained from his wrists.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /seneca.htm (557 words)

	Seneca the Elder - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The elder Seneca, father of the philosopher and dramatist, compiled an anthology of the often bizarre utterances of the declaimers.
		From Seneca’s prefactory descriptions of declaimers and passing remarks on their work, she derives evidence for all the stages in the preparation and delivery of declamations; and from the same source, in conjunction with select declamatory extracts, she shows that rhetorical taste in Seneca’s time was not so uniform as is commonly supposed.
		Seneca the Elder on the history of eloquence; 3.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521231019 (190 words)

	Latin title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Lucius Annaeus Seneca (5-65 AD) was a poet and writer, and one of the most prolific literary figures in Roman history, as well as one of the forefathers in the Stoic movement.
		The son of Seneca the Elder, he became Quaestor in 32, and his oratoy drew jealous attacks from Caligula.
		Seneca is remembered for the sheer quantity of quality work, which included poetry, prose, satires, moral letters, and tragedies.
	www.dl.ket.org /latin1/gallery/people/seneca.htm (186 words)

	Philosophy Cafe Archived Article
		Seneca was the second son of Seneca the Elder, born at Córdoba in Spain but brought up as a child in Rome by an aunt and educated there in rhetoric and philosophy.
		Seneca was one of the most important and prolific writers of his day, both in prose and in verse.
		Seneca’s moral writings influenced or at least gained the respect of later Christian writers, to the extent that before AD 400 a forged correspondence between him and St. Paul had been composed.
	www.philosophersnet.com /cafe/archive_article.php?id=34&name=philosopher (826 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Seneca was the second son of a wealthy family.
		The father, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder), had been famous in Rome as a teacher of rhetoric; the mother, Helvia, was of excellent character and education; the older brother was Gallio, met by St.
		Seneca's health suffered, and he went to recuperate in Egypt, where his aunt was the wife of the prefect, Gaius Galerius.
	www.amherst.edu /~afrossi/comedy/seneca.html (375 words)

	Seneca the Elder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During a lengthy stay on two occasions at Rome, Seneca attended the lectures of famous orators and rhetoricians, to prepare for an official career as an advocate.
		His 'ideal' orator was Cicero, and Seneca disapproved of the florid tendencies of the oratory of his time.
		Annaeus Seneca the philosopher, commonly known as Seneca the Younger; and Annaeus Mela, the father of the poet Lucan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seneca_the_Elder (656 words)

	Seneca - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He was the son of Seneca the elder.
		In AD 49 he was recalled at the urgings of Agrippina the Younger to become tutor of the young Nero.
		Seneca pounds Pennsauken on mat: The more-experienced Golden Eagles had little difficulty in a 58-13 romp over their struggling foe.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-senecay.html (615 words)

	The Infidels - Seneca
		Born in Córdoba, Spain, Seneca was the second son of Helvia and Marcus (Lucius) Annaeus Seneca, a wealthy rhetorician known as Seneca the Elder.
		In 41, Messalina, wife of the Emperor Claudius, persuaded Claudius to have Seneca banished to Corsica on a charge of adultery with Julia Livilla.
		In 49, Claudius' new wife, Agrippina, had Seneca recalled to Rome to tutor her son, L. Domitius, who was to become the emperor Nero.
	www.theinfidels.org /zunb-seneca.htm (692 words)

	Seneca - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		SENECA [Seneca] the younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) loo´shes enē´es sĕn´eke, c.3 BC-AD 65, Roman philosopher, dramatist, and statesman, b.
		Seneca Gaming Corporation Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2005 Results.
		Seneca Gaming Corporation Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2005 Results.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-senecay1.html (615 words)

	Byzant Biography - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
		Lucius Annaeus Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, tragedian and statesman.
		He was born into a wealthy family around 4 BC in Córdoba, Spain, the second son of Seneca the Elder (Marcus Annaeus Seneca).
		Seneca was allowed to retire in 62 and devoted his time to producing philosophical works.
	www.byzant.com /Mystical/Biography/Biographies.aspx?id=7 (244 words)

	Pasco-Pranger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This paper explores the intersection of Roman discourses of aging, morality, and gender, beginning from the preface to Seneca the Elder’s Controversiae, which famously draws parallels between Seneca’s own bodily decline and failing memory and the decline of morality generally and oratory in particular (cf.
		Seneca’s picture of the desidiosa iuventus of his day in its immorality and femininity echoes his description of his own aging body and mind and brings both the old man’s masculinity and his potential as a moral agent into question.
		Cicero’s De Senectute and the letters and essays of Seneca the Younger, central Roman philosophical texts defending old age and establishing its special claim to virtue, demonstrate a strong cultural association of bodily strengths with the masculine young, and mental or spiritual strength with the masculine old.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/04mtg/abstracts/Pasco-Pranger.html (447 words)

	Witness to Jesus - Seneca and the Stoics
		As a leading politician (Praetor in 48, Consul in 57), Seneca was himself a witness to the intrigue and violence of the imperial court during the reigns of Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
		Seneca's dramas (like the Gospels, in fact) were written to be read privately or recited at small gatherings rather than be performed.
		Shortly after the death of Claudius, Seneca wrote Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii ("The Pumpkinification of Claudius") a satire which ridiculed the deification of the stammering, limping Claudius, and mocked the whole notion of the emperor cult.
	www.jesusneverexisted.com /seneca.html (4671 words)

	Seneca Nation of Indians
		The Seneca Nation of Indians, one of the six original tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy, occupy sovereign lands in western New York.
		The Seneca historically controlled trade through and protected the Western territories of the Iroquois Confederacy, represented symbolically as a Longhouse, thereby assuming the reference “Keeper of the Western Door”.
		The Seneca Nation endeavors to preserve its rich cultural heritage and welcomes the opportunity to share it with the global community.
	www.senecanation.net /about.asp (117 words)

	Seneca and Burrus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		She had already arranged for him to have excellent instructors, the famous philosopher Seneca the Elder, and also the commander (Prefect) of the Praetorian Guard, Burrus.
		Lucius Annaeus Seneca (5 A.D.-65 A.D.) was a poet and a writer, and one of the major literary figures and foremost Stoic philosophers of the first century A.D. He was the son of Seneca the Elder, born in Spain and taken to Rome as a youth.
		Seneca finally saw the end of his exile when Agrippina The Younger, probably the most powerful person in Rome, called him back to Rome to become a tutor for her son, Nero.
	www.bible-history.com /nero/NEROSeneca_and_Burrus.htm (292 words)

	Lucius Annaeus Seneca [the Younger] (4 BC-65 AD) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Title: The complete Roman drama; all the extant comedies of Plautus and Terence, and the tragedies of Seneca, in a variety of translations, edited, and with an introduction, by George E. Duckworth.
		English Title: The tragedies of L. Annaeus Seneca, the philosopher / translated into English verse with annotations, to which is prefixed the life and death of Seneca, the philosopher, with a vindication of the said tragedies to him as their proper author by Sir Edward Sherburne, knight.
		Seneca entituled Hercules Oetaeus Notes: His The tenne tragedies of Seneca, 1581: leaf 187 (The tenth tragedy of L. Annae.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcseneca.htm (1876 words)

	Preface, Seneca's Five Books and Theory
		Seneca was married to Pomponia, the widow of Aulus Plautus, who was a Christian.
		At the time of his death, Seneca the Younger had friends take the manuscript now entitled ‘librium secundum Lucan Lucan’; to his brother Gallio (formerly Novatus, Marcus Lucius Anneas I, Primus) (Griffin, SPP, 33, 418) In turn Gallio had the manuscript sent to their brother Mela (Marcus Lucius Anneas III, Tertius) at Sinope.
		Seneca the Elder's second wife, Pomponia Paulina, was a Christian.
	www.bible-luke.com /preface.htm (2408 words)

	Casinos'fate is in the hands of the Seneca
		Seneca Treasurer Cooper printed, stamped, and was trying to mail a report to Seneca members which was reportedly strongly critical of the financial deal involving the Seneca Nation, a Malaysian-based financier, a somewhat shady developer, the City of Niagara Falls, the State of New York and others.
		Seneca Nation President Cyrus Schindler is not eligible to stand for election as president and is running for office as a tribal councillor.
		He is the most notable Seneca member of the Seneca Gaming Corporation which could become one of the most powerful economic entities, and a major employer, in Western New York.
	buffaloreport.com /021101seneca.html (1214 words)

	Malaspina Great Books
		Called Seneca "the elder " or " the rhetorician,;" belonged to a well-to-do equestrian family of Corduba.
		His praenomen is uncertain, but in any case Marcus is an arbitrary conjecture of Raphael of Volterra.
		The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of a Great Books Core List developed by Mortimer Adler (1902-2001) nearly 50 years ago.
	www.malaspina.org /Seneca.htm (607 words)

	Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 65 Seneca was accused of being involved in the Pisonian conspiracy, a plot to kill Nero.
		Unfortunately for Seneca, who also chose to cut his wrists, his diet caused the blood to flow slowly, thus causing pain instead of a quick death.
		They are not based on Greek tragedies, they have a five act form and differ in many respects from extant Attic drama, and whilst the influence of Euripides on some these works is considerable, so is the influence of Virgil and Ovid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucius_Annaeus_Seneca (1179 words)

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		These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible.
		Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.
		When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
	www.quoteland.com /search.asp?query=elder (716 words)

	Welcome to the Faithkeepers School
		Sandy taught Seneca language, and culture for 12 years in the Salamanca Central School.
		It is the elders who possess the knowledge and wisdom of our Seneca heritage.
		Those who can think and speak in Seneca number fewer than 5% of the Seneca population and now there is an increasing sense of urgency whenever a fluent Seneca speaking elder passes on.
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