Seneca: a life

Wilson, Emily 1971-

Seneca: a life - Allen Lane 2015 - 512 pages

Emily Wilson traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philospher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century CE, who came from Spain to Rome, spent his youth in Egypt, was exiled to Corsica under Claudius but recalled after eight years, and rose to dizzying heights of wealth, power and social influence under Nero, before falling from favour and being forced to kill himself.

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Seneca approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D Lucius Annaeus


Philosophers--Rome--Biography
Authors, Latin--Biography
Statesmen--Rome--Biography

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