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Seneca the Younger

In Our Time

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Seneca's Early Life

Given how prolific Seneca's writings are, we know remarkably little about his early life. He was born in Spain, came to Rome at a young age and studied rhetoric. Then he embarks on a senatorial career, but then he ends up being sent into exile. When he's in exile... One of her own, some, I don't see some posts in Egypt. Yes, his mother's step-sister was married to the prefect of Egypt,. It seems that Seneca spent some time in Egypt and travelled back with his aunt in a shipwreck in which her husband was drowned.

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