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  2. Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia

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    Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (/ ˈ s ɛ n ɪ k ə / SEN-ik-ə; c. 4 BC – AD 65), [1] usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.

  3. Medea (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    Jason is made a more appealing figure by Seneca - thus strengthening the justification for, and power of, Medea’s passion. [9] Nevertheless, the increased degree of stage violence in the Seneca version, [10] and its extra gruesomeness, has led it to be seen as a coarser and more sensational version of Euripides’ play. [11]

  4. Seneca people - Wikipedia

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    Seneca oral history states that the tribe originated in a village called Nundawao, near the south end of Canandaigua Lake, at South Hill. [10] Close to South Hill stands the 865-foot-high (264 m) Bare Hill, known to the Seneca as Genundowa. [11] Bare Hill is part of the Bare Hill Unique Area, which began to be acquired by the state in 1989. [12]

  5. 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)

  6. Handsome Lake - Wikipedia

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    Handsome Lake was born as Hadawa'ko ("Shaking Snow") around 1735 in the Seneca village of Canawaugus, on the Genesee River near present-day Avon, New York. Very little is known of his parents; his mother, Gahonnoneh, later had an affair with a Dutch fur trader and gunsmith, resulting in the birth of Handsome Lake's half-brother, Cornplanter.

  7. De Beneficiis - Wikipedia

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    De Beneficiis (English: On Benefits) is a first-century work by Seneca the Younger.It forms part of a series of moral essays (or "Dialogues") composed by Seneca. De Beneficiis concerns the award and reception of gifts and favours within society, and examines the complex nature and role of gratitude within the context of Stoic ethics.

  8. Essay on the Life of Seneca - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Denis Diderot (1767) by Louis-Michel van Loo. Essay on the Life of Seneca (French: Essai sur Sénèque) was one of the final works of Denis Diderot.It contains an analysis of the life and works of Seneca, criticism of La Mettrie and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, autobiographical notes, and a tribute to modern America.

  9. Seneca the Elder - Wikipedia

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    Seneca mentioned the poet Ovid as being a star declaimer; the works of the satirists Martial and Juvenal and the historian Tacitus reveal substantial declamatory influence. [9] Seneca's work here, however, is neither a collection of his own declamations nor fair copies of those delivered by other declaimers; it is an anthology.