Stoic Philosopher, Statesman & Dramatist · Roman · b. c. 4 BC · d. 65 AD
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and — in one work — satirist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. Born in Córdoba in Hispania, he was raised in Rome where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy. Exiled to Corsica by the emperor Claudius in 41 AD, he was recalled in 49 AD to become tutor to the future emperor Nero. He served as Nero's advisor for the first years of his reign before falling out of favor and being forced to commit suicide in 65 AD for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy. His surviving works include twelve philosophical essays, 124 letters dealing with moral issues (the *Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium*), a satire, and nine tragedies.
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