
Seneca the Younger
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Rome Laegot, a Roman Orator
Seneca himself was known as a brilliant orator. And that must be one of the reasons why agrippina wanted him to be tutor to her son, nero. So he pops up in rome. And what sort of rome does he come into? Well, heis rome am in his youth under the emperor tiberius and er. But all this is supposition until iis about 37. Hehe adopted vegetarianism. His father thought that was rather a dangerous thing to do,. In case he was associated with with an exotic religious sect - then might be subject tho tiberias.
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