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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca ; c. 4 BC – AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was a tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, some sources state that he may have been innocent. His father was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, called Gallio in the Bible, and his nephew was the poet Lucan. ==Biography== He was born in Cordoba in Spain,〔(The epistles of Lucius Annæus Seneca translated with large annotations by T. Morell ) G.G. and J.Robinson - Pater-noster Row 1786 (2015-3-29 )〕 and raised in Rome,〔MG Moran (Graduate Coordinator and Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia) - (Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources - p.343 ) Greenwood Publishing Group, 1 Jan 2005 (edited by M Ballif - Associate Professor of English and Director of the Franklin College Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia, MG Moran) ISBN 0313321787 (2015-04-02 )〕 where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy (ref. - p. 31). Miriam Griffin says in her biography of Seneca that "the evidence for Seneca's life before his exile in 41 is so slight, and the potential interest of these years, for social history as well as for biography, is so great that few writers on Seneca have resisted the temptation to eke out knowledge with imagination."〔Miriam T. Griffin. ''Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics'', Oxford 1976. 34.〕 Griffin also infers from the ancient sources that Seneca was born in either 8, 4, or 1 BC. She thinks he was born between 4 and 1 BC and was a resident in Rome by AD 5. Seneca says that he was carried to Rome in the arms of his mother's stepsister.〔Cons Helv. 19.2〕 Griffin says that, allowing for rhetorical exaggeration, means "it is fair to conclude that Seneca was in Rome as a very small boy." Be that as it may, it is clear that he was in Rome at a relatively early stage in his life. Caligula and Fabius, were critics of his works and Columella, Pliny, Tacitus and Dio proponents.〔Sir Roger L'Estrange - ((Second page of part ''of Seneca's writings'', near to the beginning of the book) - Seneca's Morals by Way of Abstract ) S. Ballard, 1746 (2015-04-02 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seneca the Younger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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