Lucius Annaeus Seneca
c. 4 BC – AD 65 · Rome
Writing the Letters from a Stoic and On the Shortness of Life — the most practical, most quoted, and most readable Stoic texts ever produced
Letters to Lucilius 124 surviving (of likely more)
Tutored Nero from AD 49 (Nero was 12)
Forced to take own life AD 65, by Nero's order
Considered the founder of Roman Stoicism in its readable form
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