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De otio ; De brevitate vitae

Seneca the Younger

  • 271 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2003
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Good for readers who want: philosophy and Stoic philosophy.

  • Philosophy
  • Stoics
  • Conduct of life

2 About Seneca the Younger

 

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger ( SEN-ik-ə; c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, a dramatist, and in one work (Apocolocyntosis) a satirist from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. Seneca was born in Colonia Patricia Corduba in Hispania, and was trained in rhetoric and philosophy in Greece.

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