The Death of Seneca. Manuel Dominguez Sanchez, 1840-1906., Spanish artist oil on canvas, 1871. Prado Museum. Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 4 BC – AD 65, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humourist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, he may have been innocent
The Death of Seneca. Manuel Dominguez Sanchez, 1840-1906., Spanish artist oil on canvas, 1871. Prado Museum. Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 4 BC – AD 65, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humourist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, he may have been innocent
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