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  2. Seneca the Elder - Wikipedia

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    Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Elder (/ ˈ s ɛ n ɪ k ə / SEN-ik-ə; c. 54 BC – c. AD 39), also known as Seneca the Rhetorician, was a Roman writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Corduba, Hispania.

  3. Controversia - Wikipedia

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    Seneca the Elder was an expert rhetorician and, from memory, compiled a set of classical themes for this exercise: the Controversiæ. [10] Controversia is demonstrated in the case of Quintillian's Declamationes Minores where suasoria was turned into this exercise by using a courtroom as a setting. [11]

  4. Vipsanius Atticus - Wikipedia

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    As he is mentioned only in this one passage of Seneca, his name has given rise to considerable dispute over the centuries. The classical scholars Georg Ludwig Spalding and Meyer Reinhold conjectured that he was the son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Attica , and that he had the surname of Atticus in honor of his grandfather Titus Pomponius ...

  5. Seneca people - Wikipedia

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    Seneca women generally grew and harvested varieties of the three sisters, as well as gathering and processing medicinal plants, roots, berries, nuts, and fruit. Seneca women held sole ownership of all the land and the homes. The women also tended to any domesticated animals such as dogs and turkeys. [citation needed]

  6. Hercules (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    Hercules, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, but the reputed son of Amphitryon; Juno, sister and wife of Jupiter, and queen of heaven; Chorus (of Thebans) Amphitryon, husband of Alcmena

  7. List of people known as the Elder or the Younger - Wikipedia

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    The Elder" and "the Younger" are epithets generally used to distinguish between two individuals, often close relatives. In some instances, one of the pair is much more famous, and hence not known as "the Elder" or "the Younger", e.g. Carl Linnaeus ; in such cases, they are not listed in a separate column but rather in the notes of the other person.

  8. Seneca - Wikipedia

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    Seneca the Elder (c. 54 BC – c. AD 39), a Roman rhetorician, writer and father of the stoic philosopher Seneca; Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist; Seneca people, one of the six Iroquois tribes, native to the area south of Lake Ontario (present day New York state)

  9. Potamo of Mytilene - Wikipedia

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    When his son was killed, according to Seneca the Elder, he delivered a speech on the suasoria relating to the Spartans deliberating whether to flee Thermopylae wherein he exhorted the Spartans against flight, in contrast to his rival Lesbocles, [1] who shut down his school of rhetoric after the death of his son. [6]