• Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Elder (/ˈsɛnɪkə/ SEN-ik-ə; c. 54 BC – c. AD 39), also known as Seneca the Rhetorician, was a Roman writer, born of a wealthy...
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    was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lucan. In AD 41, Seneca was exiled to the island...
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  • name or surname Seneca the Elder (c. 54 BC – c. AD 39), a Roman rhetorician, writer and father of the stoic philosopher Seneca Seneca the Younger (c. 4...
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    Seneca the Elder (1974). Suasoriae. Vol. 464. Harvard University Press. p. 485. doi:10.4159/DLCL.seneca_elder-suasoriae.1974. Seneca the Elder (1974)...
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    (1992). Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics (reprint ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-814774-9. Fane-Saunders, Peter. (2016). Pliny the Elder and...
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    survive in four corpora: the compilations of Seneca the Elder and Calpurnius Flaccus, as well as two sets of controversiae, the Major Declamations and Minor...
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    Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass): Volume I. Books 1–6 L453) Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass): Volume II. Books 7–11 L015) Satyricon, with Seneca the Younger's...
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    deliberative theory. Seneca the Elder was an expert rhetorician and, from memory, compiled a set of classical themes for this exercise: the Controversiæ. Controversia...
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    Other sources include Seneca the Elder and Quintilian. Ovid was born in the Paelignian town of Sulmo (modern-day Sulmona, in the province of L'Aquila,...
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  • wit or short stature. There may also have been an obscene meaning. Seneca the Elder mentions his short stature, and refers a story in which Calvus asked...
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