Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BCE–65 CE), known as Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and tragedian born in Corduba (modern Córdoba, Spain). Educated in Rome, he became a prominent writer and public figure under the early Roman Empire. After a period of exile on Corsica, he returned to serve as tutor and later adviser to the emperor Nero, attaining high office and great influence. Seneca’s essays and letters, especially the *Epistulae Morales*, shaped later Stoic ethics with their focus on virtue, self-control, and the wise use of time. Accused of complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy, he was ordered to die by suicide.