place
Hispania
Spain
The Iberian Peninsula, settled in turn by Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, and Romans.
Reading notes
- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §7 Spain
Iberia; Seneca lists it among lands repeatedly resettled — by Carthaginians and others.
- On Benefits §5.24.1 Spain
Hispania, theater of Caesar's campaigns against the Pompeians, where the anecdote's hardships took place.
- On the Shortness of Life §5.2 Spain
Where Pompey's son carried on the war after his father's defeat at Pharsalus.
- On Anger §1.11 the Spaniards
The peoples of Hispania, here cited among those who defeat the fiercer Germans through method rather than rage.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §15.94.64 Spain
Hispania, the Iberian peninsula; theatre of Sertorius's long insurgency against the Sullan Senate, which Pompey was sent to suppress.