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Seneca - The Constancy of the Sage Douglas Stones

Sêneca (4 BC - 65) was a Roman philosopher, writer and politician. Master of rhetoric he was the main representative of Stoicism during the Roman Empire. Lucius Annaeus Sêneca, known as Sêneca the Young, was born in Cordoba, Spain, around the year 04 BC, during the Roman Empire. Son of the famous speaker Lucius Annaeus Séneca (the Old Man), still a child, he was sent to Rome to study oratory and philosophy. In Rome, Seneca received teachings from several masters who initiated him into Stoicism. Later, he spent a season in Egypt for health treatment.