odwaga-i-dzialanie: Seneka Młodszy

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Seneca, Quintilian, and Pliny the Younger, Exceptional Personalities of Roman Culture of the 1st Century AD. Seneca, Quintilian, and Pliny the Younger, Exceptional Personalities of Roman Culture from the 1st Century AD. In the first century AD. Roman culture managed to give the universal heritage exceptional personalities, who thru their writ-ings influenced both contemporaries and those of the next generations. Thus, thru his vast work, Seneca will remain one of the great personalities of his time. In his writings he pursued, with priority, the improvement of moral life and therefore he managed to be over time a source of inspiration for many cultural and philosophical personalities, but a…

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Annaeus Seneca (2), Lucius, Seneca “the Younger,” 4 BCE–65 CE. Abstract Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) was an important political, philosophical, and literary figure of the 1st century ce. Close to the court of Caligula, he was exiled by Claudius but later attained a position of high power during the first years of Nero’s principate. In his old age, however, Seneca was ordered to commit suicide for his alleged part in a possible plot against Nero’s life. The prose works give a vivid sense of the difficulties of living a Stoic life at this time period and, additionally, reflect many aspects of Roman society such as clientela (De beneficiis, “On Benefits”), the role of the princep…