Seneca

Family: Roman · Role: writer · First appears: Caligula 53

Life events

• Nero forced his preceptor Seneca to commit suicide.(Nero 35)
  • With: Nero
  • “Seneca, his preceptor, he forced to kill himself”
• Seneca discouraged Nero from reading ancient orators to preserve Nero's devotion to him.(Nero 52)
  • With: Nero
  • “his preceptor, Seneca, discouraged him from reading the ancient orators, that he might longer secure his devotion to himself.”

Caligula 53

• with Caligula (Caligula criticized Seneca's writing.) “he said Seneca, who was then much admired, ‘wrote only detached essays,’ and that ‘his language was nothing but sand without lime.’”

Nero 35

• enemies with Nero “Seneca, his preceptor, he forced to kill himself”
• pupil: Nero “Seneca, his preceptor, he forced to kill himself”

Nero 52

• pupil: Nero “his preceptor, Seneca, discouraged him from reading the ancient orators, that he might longer secure his devotion to himself.”

Persius

• with Aulus Persius Flaccus (interaction) “It was late before Persius made the acquaintance of Seneca”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.