![]() ![]() Later he also studied neo-Pythagoreanism. He was trained in rhetoric, and was introduced to Stoic philosophy by Attalos and Sotion. Tradition relates that he was a sickly child, and that he was taken to Rome by his aunt, who was married to the prefect Gaius Galerius, to be educated in the school of the Sextii. Seneca's older brother, Gallio, became proconsul at Achaea (where he encountered the apostle Paul about 52 C.E.), and Seneca was uncle to the poet Lucan, by his younger brother, Annaeus Mela. ![]() Seneca’s works were read by Medieval scholars and his tragedies-with their gloominess, ghosts, and witches-had a powerful influence on Elizabethan drama.īorn in Córdoba, Spain in 4 B.C.E., Seneca was the second of three sons of Helvia and Marcus (Lucius) Annaeus Seneca, a wealthy rhetorician known as Seneca the Elder. The early Christian church believed that he had known Saint Paul and therefore granted his works legitimacy and preserved them. ![]()
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