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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. Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia

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    His father was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lucan. In AD 41, Seneca was exiled to the island of Corsica under emperor Claudius , [ 2 ] but was allowed to return in 49 to become a tutor to Nero .

  4. 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.

  5. Albinovanus Pedo - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. 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]

  7. 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)

  8. Suasoria - Wikipedia

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    A book of suasoriae survive from antiquity, recorded in Suasoria by Seneca the Elder. [7] He writes responses and analysis of responses on seven suasoriae: Alexander debates whether to sail the ocean, [ 8 ]

  9. Quintus Sextius - Wikipedia

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    Quintus Sextius the Elder (/ ˈ k w ɪ n t ə s ˈ s ɛ k s t i ə s /; Latin: Quinti Sextii Patris; fl. c. 50 BC) was a Roman philosopher, whose philosophy combined Pythagoreanism with Stoicism. Seneca frequently praised him.