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Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Elder
Seneca the Elder
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 'the Elder' (c.54 BC-AD 39), the rhetorician, Seneca's father and Helvia's husband; his old-fashioned strictness limited Helvia's formal study of philosophy.
Reading notes
- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §17 my father's old-fashioned
Seneca's father, the rhetorician Seneca the Elder, whose traditionalism kept Helvia from a full philosophical education.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §9.78.2 my most indulgent father
Seneca the Elder (the rhetorician, c. 54 BC--c. AD 39), whose grief Seneca could not bring himself to cause; the reverence for him stayed his hand from suicide during his youthful illness.