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Seneca the Younger

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Seneca and Nero

Seneca was known as an absolutely brilliant orator, and that must be one of the reasons why Agrippina wanted him to be tutored to her son Nero. It was hugely important that Nero mastered the art of oratory. So he pops up in Rome, and what sort of Rome does he come into? Well, he's in Rome in his youth under the Emperor Tiberius,. There's one very interesting moment in Seneca's letters written in his 60s, and he's looking back to his youth when he adopted vegetarianism. His inner search was a clever man, his exercising his clemonus in what way? We may think if it any relations with his father

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