Seneca the Younger

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist of the post-Augustan age of Latin literature, born in Corduba in Hispania and trained in rhetoric and philosophy. Exiled to Corsica under Claudius, he returned to tutor and later advise the young emperor Nero, and he died by forced suicide in the year 65 after being accused of joining the Pisonian conspiracy. As a writer he is known for twelve essays and 124 letters on moral questions, which form a major body of primary material for ancient Stoicism, and for tragedies such as Medea, Thyestes and Phaedra. His one satire is the Apocolocyntosis, and Renaissance readers admired him as a master of style and dramatic art.