Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Younger, was a Roman philosopher, dramatist, naturalist, and politician. He was born around 1 CE in Corduba and died near Rome in 65 CE. Under the emperors Caligula and Claudius, he worked as a lawyer, quaestor, and senator. After being exiled to Corsica, he was recalled to Rome in 49 CE to tutor and later advise the future emperor Nero. Seneca wrote the tragedies “Medea” and “Oedipus,” the satire “Apocolocyntosis,” and philosophical works including the “Moral Letters to Lucilius,” in which he advocated Stoic principles. His speeches, which had made him well known, have been lost. In 65 CE, he was accused of involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy and forced to commit suicide.