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Seneca the Younger

In Our Time

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The Virtuous Life of Augustus

Seneca is a very interesting character because in fact, he lives through every single one of that first dynasty. He's born on Augustus and he meets his death under Nero. If you're telling a gloomy story of the first dynasty, we call it Julia, Claudia and dynasty, you say, look, it goes from good to bad. And Nero in that narrative represents, but he comes to the throne as a teenager. You've got a teenager running the known world. That can't be good.

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