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	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.
		Seneca, the younger, c.3 B.C.–A.D. 65, Roman philosopher, dramatist, and statesman
		He was the son of Seneca the elder.
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	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.
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	Caesar, Pliny the Elder and Seneca the Younger
		Caesar, Pliny the Elder and Seneca the Younger
		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)

	Seneca: Stoic, Satirical, and Stereotypically Roman
		Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) was born in Cordoba in 4 BCE, but soon brought to Rome by his mother’s step-sister, where he studied under the Stoic Attalus.
		In 62 CE Seneca became suspect in one of the attempts to murder Nero and Agrippina, and he was asked to retire from public life.
		Seneca wrote Apocolocyntosis (The Pumpkinification of Claudius) to express his displeasure and annoyance with the extravagance and opulence that the Roman Emperors had embraced.
	www.musesrealm.net /writings/seneca.html (1119 words)

	Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Philosopher - Biography
		Early in life, Seneca went to Rome with his Aunt, who was wife to the prefect Gaius Galerius, and there he was educated in philosophy in the school of the Sextii.
		Seneca considered himself to be a Stoic, although his personal life seems to contradict the noble attitude of his texts.
		Seneca's works were studied by Augustin, Jerome, and Boethius, and were included in anthologies used in the Middle Ages.
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	Temple of Seneca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Receiving thorough training in rhetoric and philosophy in Rome, Seneca the Younger, as he was known, was deeply influenced by the teachings of the Stoics, whose doctrines he later developed.
		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.
	sangha.net /messengers/Seneca.htm (330 words)

	Facts for Kids: Seneca Indians (Senecas)
		Yes, the Seneca nation was one of the original members of the Iroquois League, or Kanonsionni in their own language ("league of clans.") The other member nations were the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Cayuga, and the Onondaga.
		In times of war, Seneca men often shaved their heads except for a scalplock or a crest down the center of their head--the style known as a roach, or a "Mohawk." Sometimes they would augment this hairstyle with splayed feathers or artificial roaches made of brightly dyed porcupine and deer hair.
		The Seneca Indians were known for their false face masks, which are considered such a sacred art form that outsiders are still not permitted to view many of these masks.
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	Seneca - History for Kids!
		Seneca was one of the great writers of the Julio-Claudian period in Rome.
		Seneca became the teacher of Nero, when Nero was a little boy (little sons of the emperor didn't go to school; they had private teachers of their own at home).
		Seneca's Stoicism took the form of saying that the reason the Roman Republic had collapsed was that people indulged in too much pleasure, and too much politics, and they failed to keep a peaceful and serene mind.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/romans/literature/seneca.htm (348 words)

	Temple of Seneca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Receiving thorough training in rhetoric and philosophy in Rome, Seneca the Younger, as he was known, was deeply influenced by the teachings of the Stoics, whose doctrines he later developed.
		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)

	From Letters from a Stoic - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
		Roman philosopher and dramatist Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger, was famous among his contemporaries of the 1st century ad for his wealth.
		Seneca was one of the chief proponents of the philosophy of Stoicism, which emphasizes qualities of character such as justice and temperance over material wealth or social rank.
		Seneca was still sensitive to human frailties, as this excerpt from one of his many letters shows.
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	Detail Page
		While the cause is unclear, Seneca took the banishment quite poorly, and in un-Stoic letters to Polybius, an influential freedman, he pleaded for an end to the exile.
		In 65, Seneca, perhaps wrongly, was implicated in the Pisonian Conspiracy and was allowed to choose the method of his death, settling finally, after a few failed attempts, on a lethal vapor bath.
		Seneca had been attacked as a writer for being too eager a proponent of the gaudiness of the Silver Age of Roman literature.
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		1) Seneca, the younger, c.3 B.C.-A.D. 65, Roman philosopher, dramatist, and statesman.
		Seneca, the younger, c.3 B.C.–A.D. 65, Roman philosopher, dramatist, and statesman, the younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (loo´shs ne´s sen´k), c.3 B.C.-A.D. 65, Roman...
		Seneca, the elder, c.60 B.C.–c.A.D. 37, Roman rhetorician and writer, the elder (Lucius, or Marcus, Annaeus Seneca) (loo´shs, mar´ks ne´s sen´k) (KEY), c.60 B.C.-c.A.D....
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		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)

	Marcus Annaeus Seneca - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Seneca is best known for his works on rhetoric, only parts of which survive, including Oratorum Sententiae Divisiones Colores and Suasoriae.
		Born in Spain, he was banished to Corsica by Claudius in 41, charged with adultery; in 49 his sentence was repealed and he became tutor to Nero, through the influence of Nero's mother and Claudius' wife, Agrippina.
		Seneca was a dominant figure in the early years of Nero's reign and was appointed consul in 57; he retired in 62.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O48-SenecaMarcusAnnaeus.html (351 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)

	Witness to Jesus - Seneca and the Stoics
		The younger Seneca was sent to Rome as a youth, where he studied philosophy and law.
		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.
		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 the Younger C 3 B C a D 65 Roman Philosopher Dramatist and Statesman: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com ...
		49 he was recalled at the urgings of Agrippina the Younger to become tutor of the young Nero.
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		Seneca, the Younger, C.3 B.C.–a.D. 65, Roman Philosopher, Dramatist, and Statesman
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	De Providentia Information
		De Providentia ("On Providence") is a short essay in the form of a dialogue in six brief sections, written by the Latin philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "Seneca the Younger" (died AD 65) in the last years of his life.
		Seneca answers according to the stoic point of view.
		So, in perfect sintony with the stoicism philosophy, Seneca explains that the truly wise man can never surrender in the face of misfortunes but as he will always go through them and even if he should fall he will continue fighting on his knees ("si cecidit de genu pugnat").
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	Society of Biblical Literature
		In the 40's AD Seneca the Younger, a contemporary of Paul, with his usual elegant turn of phrase wrote in a letter to his mother, "Never have you fancied the kind of dress that exposed no greater nakedness by being removed" (Seneca the Younger, ad Helviam, 16:4).
		The whole letter is enlightening because in it Seneca notes that pressure was on his mother and other married women of his day to dress and live as the "new" woman did.
		Seneca, in the same letter to his mother, commented on the aversion by this new breed of women to having children.
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	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)

	AllRefer.com - B.C. –c. A.D. 37, Roman rhetorician and writer (Classical Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Seneca the elder (Lucius, or Marcus, Annaeus Seneca)[lOO´shus, mAr´kus unE´us sen´uku] Pronunciation Key, c.60
		Corduba (present-day COrdoba), 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.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SenecaE.html (267 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Seneca - AOL Research & Learn
		the younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)l `shàs ànē`às sĕn`àkà, c.3 B.C.– 65, Roman philosopher, dramatist, and statesman, b.
		He was exiled by Claudius (; 41) ostensibly because of his intimacy with Julia, Claudius' brother Germanicus' daughter.
		In 49 he was recalled at the urgings of Agrippina the Younger to become tutor of the young Nero.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Seneca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The younger Seneca went to Rome in his childhood, studied rhetoric and philosophy, and earned renown...
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		Seneca Gaming Corporation Announces Its Operating Results for the Three and Nine Months Ended June 30, 2004 and Expansion Plans for Seneca Allegany Casino.
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	Seneca the Younger Summary
		Seneca the Younger is the principal Stoic philosopher, essayist, and tragedian of imperial Rome.
		In the following essay, Hunter cautions that Seneca's influence on Elizabethan drama was not a simple process, but rather a complex interplay between a multifaceted writer and a dynamic stage tradition.
		Seneca the Younger: Bust, traditionally thought to be Seneca, now identified by some as Hesiod.
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