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De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time , namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Latin for "Moral Letters to Lucilius"), also known as the Moral Epistles and Letters from a Stoic, is a letter collection of 124 letters that Seneca the Younger wrote at the end of his life, during his retirement, after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for more than ten years.
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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, known as Seneca, was born over 2000 years ago in Southern Spain and then educated in Rome. Seneca’s exposure to philosophy came from Attalus, a Stoic ...
Double Herm of Socrates and Seneca (Antikensammlung Berlin) Senecan tragedy refers to a set of ten ancient Roman tragedies, [1] eight of which were probably written by the Stoic philosopher and politician Lucius Annaeus Seneca. [2] Senecan tragedy, much like any particular type of tragedy, had specific characteristics to help classify it.
Its longer form is non scholæ sed vitæ discimus, which means "We do not learn for school, but for life". The scholae and vitae are first-declension feminine datives of purpose . The motto is an inversion of the original, which appeared in Seneca the Younger 's Moral Letters to Lucilius around AD 65. [ 1 ]
Seneca the Elder is the first of the gens Annaea of whom there is definite knowledge. [1] During the renaissance his name and his works became confused with his son Lucius Annaeus Seneca. [2] In the early 16th century Raphael of Volterra saw that there must be two different men.
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