Seneca's Coming Of Age

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The writer Seneca, who is also known as Seneca the Younger, was believed to be born between 1 and 5 A.D. and was relocated to Rome at a young age. Seneca was very educated in philosophy and was raised to believe that you should live for knowledge, not extravagance and that one living under the Sextii philosophy, they should also avoid politics. Seneca wrote as a philosopher but was often ridiculed for being a hypocrite for his lifestyle. Seneca began his disfavor by Romes emperors by defaming Caligula in his writings and opinions. This disfavor carried over to Claudius, in part by having an adulterous affair with one of his nieces for which he was then banished, but then by writing Pumpkinification while he was Nero's tutor. Seneca was brought

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