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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 ...
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 ]
Hercules Oetaeus (lit. ' Hercules on Mount Oeta ') is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of c. 1996 lines of verse which survived as one of Lucius Annaeus Seneca's tragedies.
While Euripides' Medea shares similarities with Seneca’s version, they are also different in significant ways. Seneca's Medea was written after Euripides', and arguably his heroine shows a dramatic awareness of having to grow into her (traditional) role. [7] Seneca opens his play with Medea herself expressing her hatred of Jason and Creon.
Billingsley, who starred in the sequel with original cast members: Scott Schwartz, R.D. Robb, Zach Ward and Ian Petrella, told TODAY what it was like to reunite with his co-stars after three decades.
Steven Ralph Schirripa (/ ʃ ɪ ˈ r ɪ p ə / shih-RIP-ə; born September 3, 1957 [1]) is an American actor.He is best known for portraying Bobby Bacala on The Sopranos, Leo Boykewich on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, and Detective Anthony Abetemarco on Blue Bloods.
When Hocus Pocus dropped in theaters in 1993, it flopped — but it has since lasted the test of time, becoming a must-watch film every October. Starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and ...