Seneca
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the Younger)was born at Corduba (mod. C-rdoba) in southern Spain between 4 BC and AD 1. He was born into a wealthy equestrian family of Italian stock, being the second son of the elder Seneca and Helvia; his brothers were Lucius Annaeus Novatus, later known as Iunius Gallio after his adoption by the orator of that name, and Lucius Annaeus Mela, the father of the poet Lucan. He was happily married to a woman younger than himself, Pompeia Paulina; the evidence for an earlier marriage is tenuous. He had one son, who died in 41.
He was brought to Rome by his mother's stepsister, the wife of Gaius Galerius, prefect of Egypt from 16 to 31. Little is known about his life before AD 41. In Rome by AD 5, he studied grammar and rhetoric and was attracted at an early age to philosophy. His philosophical training was varied. He attended lectures by Attalus the Stoic and by Sotion and Papirius Fabianus, both followers of...
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