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Double herm of Socrates and Seneca, Antikensammlung Berlin (photograph by Calidius, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Double herm of Socrates and Seneca, Antikensammlung Berlin (photograph by Calidius, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Wikimedia Commons

Author

Seneca

c. 4 BC–AD 65 · Stoic philosopher and dramatist

Nero’s tutor and adviser, Stoic moralist and writer of tragedies, ordered by Nero to take his own life. His satire on the dead emperor Claudius is the funniest thing he wrote.

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The Pumpkinification of Claudius, in Latin beside English.

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