![]() ![]() The destructive passions, especially anger and grief, must be uprooted, although sometimes he offers advice for moderating them according to reason. Seneca regards philosophy as a balm for the wounds of life. His workĪs a writer, Seneca is known for his philosophical works, and for his plays, which are all tragedies. It was thanks to the influence of Agrippina, Nero's mother, that Seneca was recalled to Rome. While still young he received philosophical training from Attalus the Stoic.Īfter a successful career as a senator and a period of exile in Corsica on a charge of adultery with the princess Julia Livilla, emperor Claudius’s niece, Seneca became first Nero's tutor, then his advisor when the latter became emperor. ![]() Seneca was taught the usual subjects of literature, grammar, and rhetoric, as part of the standard education of high-born Romans. His father resided for much of his life in the city. Seneca tells us that he was taken to Rome in the "arms" of his aunt (his mother's stepsister) at a young age, probably when he was about five years old. He was raised in Rome, where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy. ![]() ![]() He was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. 4 BC–AD 65 ) -also known as Seneca the Younger or simply as Seneca - was born in Corduba, Spain. Read the following biography of Seneca the younger and do the comprehension questions ![]()
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