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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.
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 ...
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.
Marcus Porcius Latro (died 4 BC) was a celebrated Roman rhetorician who is considered one of the founders of scholastic rhetoric. [1]He was born in Roman Spain, and is mentioned often in the works of his friend and contemporary Seneca the Elder, with whom he studied under Marillius.
Fabianus soon, however, abandoned rhetoric in favor of philosophy; and Seneca the Younger places his philosophical works next to those of Cicero, Asinius Pollio, and Livy the historian. [2] The philosophical style of Fabianus is described by Seneca, [2] and in some points his description corresponds with that of the elder Seneca. [1]
Albinovanus Pedo was a member of the gens Albinovana.He wrote a Theseis, referred to in a letter from his friend Ovid, epigrams which are commended by Martial and an epic poem on the exploits of Germanicus.
The elder Seneca describes him as a man of great eloquence, and by far the acutest philosopher of his age. [1] He taught the Stoic philosophy to Seneca the Younger, [2] who frequently quotes him, and speaks of him in the highest terms. [3] Seneca reminisces about Attalus in his 108th Letter:
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)