Roman scholar, writer and historian (c. 54 BC – c. AD 39)
Seneca the Elder
Born
c. 54 BC Corduba, Hispania (present-day Spain)
Died
c. 39 AD (aged c. 92)
Language
Latin, Greek
Genre
Rhetoric, Silver Age of Latin, history
Notable works
Oratorum et Rhetorum Sententiae Divisiones Colores Historiae ab Initio Bellorum Civilium
Spouse
Helvia
Children
Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger Marcus Annaeus Mela
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 equestrian family of Corduba, Hispania. He wrote a collection of reminiscences about the Roman schools of rhetoric, six books of which are extant in a more or less complete state and five others in epitome only. His principal work, a history of Roman affairs from the beginning of the Civil Wars until the last years of his life, is almost entirely lost to posterity. Seneca lived through the reigns of three significant emperors; Augustus (ruled 27 BC – 14 AD), Tiberius (ruled 14–37 AD) and Caligula (ruled 37–41 AD). He was the father of Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, best known as a Proconsul of Achaia; his second son was the dramatist and Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger (Lucius), who was tutor of Nero, and his third son, Marcus Annaeus Mela, became the father of the poet Lucan.
was SenecatheElder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lucan. In AD 41, Seneca was exiled to the island...
(1992). Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics (reprint ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-814774-9. Fane-Saunders, Peter. (2016). Pliny theElder and...
survive in four corpora: the compilations of SenecatheElder and Calpurnius Flaccus, as well as two sets of controversiae, the Major Declamations and Minor...
Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass): Volume I. Books 1–6 L453) Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass): Volume II. Books 7–11 L015) Satyricon, with Senecathe Younger's...
deliberative theory. SenecatheElder was an expert rhetorician and, from memory, compiled a set of classical themes for this exercise: the Controversiæ. Controversia...
Other sources include SenecatheElder and Quintilian. Ovid was born in the Paelignian town of Sulmo (modern-day Sulmona, in the province of L'Aquila,...
wit or short stature. There may also have been an obscene meaning. SenecatheElder mentions his short stature, and refers a story in which Calvus asked...
the Lives of Famous Men). Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Fasti. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (SenecatheElder), Controversiae. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the...
according to SenecatheElder) solicitations by men. The palla was the mark of a married, respectable woman. It was a piece of cloth wrapped around the body with...
dishes. Murri may derive from garum. Pliny theElder and Isidore of Seville derive the Latin word garum from the Greek γάρος (gáros), a food named by Aristophanes...
the Roman Empire which in the 1st century produced several notable Latin writers, including SenecatheElder and Senecathe Younger, Lucan and Quintilian...
Silvae. Lucan was the son of Marcus Annaeus Mela and grandson of SenecatheElder; he grew up under the tutelage of his uncle Senecathe Younger. Born into...
Romanae by Velleius Paterculus, the best annals of the Augustan period, Controversiae and Suasoriae of SenecatheElder. Works of poetry such as Ovid's...
also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century...
a freedman of his brother Quintus Cicero. As reported by SenecatheElder, according to the historian Aufidius Bassus, Cicero's last words are said to...
As admiral of the fleet, Pliny theElder had ordered the ships of the Imperial Navy stationed at Misenum to cross the bay to assist evacuation attempts...
great admirers of the cloth, were convinced that the Chinese took the fabric from tree leaves. This belief was affirmed by SenecatheElder in his work Phaedra...
attached to women who wore the material, as illustrated by SenecatheElder: I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's...
poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid...
Histories. SenecatheElder speaks highly of Bassus as a historian; however, the fragments preserved in that writer's Suasoriae (vi. 23) relating to the death...
remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers are written with combinations of letters from the Latin...
pɔpʊˈɫ̪ʊs̠kʷɛ roːˈmäːnʊs̠]; transl. "The Senate and the Roman People"), is an emblematic phrase referring to the government of the Roman Republic. It appears on...
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