Lucius Annaeus Seneca, statesman, philosopher, advocate and man of
letters, was born in Spain around 4BC. He rose to prominence at
Rome, pursuing a double career in the courts and political life,
until Claudius sent him into exile exile on the island of Corsica
for eight years. Recalled in AD49, he was appointed tutor to the
boy who was to become, in AD54, the emperor Nero. Seneca acted for
eight years as Nero's unofficial chief minister until Nero too
turned against him and he retired from public life to devote
himself to philosophy and writing. In AD65, following the discovery
of a plot against the emperor, he and many others were compelled by
Nero to commit suicide.
C.D.N. Costa has spent most of his working life at Birmingham
University, where he is Professor of Classics and Chairman of the
School of Antiquity. Among other works, he has written commentaries
on the works of Seneca, Letters, Dialogues and the tragedy Medea.
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