Seneca the Younger

When did Seneca live?

Seneca the Younger is dated c. 4 BC – AD 65 (forced suicide) in the archive, which places Seneca in the Apostolic Age (AD 4–70). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.

What did Seneca write?

Seneca the Younger has 1 catalogued writing in the archive: Moral Letters to Lucilius.

Which early sources mention Seneca?

Seneca the Younger is named in 3 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from Tertullian of Carthage, Jerome and Augustine of Hippo. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Seneca from?

The archive associates Seneca the Younger with Rome.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca, so often one of us.

Tertullian's De Anima, written at Carthage c. AD 210–213 — the earliest Christian treatise on the soul, and the source of the phrase Seneca saepe noster. Critical text: J. H. Waszink (Amsterdam, 1947); also Eligius Dekkers, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 2 (1954). English translation by Peter Holmes, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3 (1885), public domain.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca of Cordova… lived a most continent life. I should not place him in the category of saints were it not that those Epistles of Paul to Seneca and Seneca to Paul, read by many, provoke me.

He worshipped what he blamed, did what he condemned, adored what he reproached.

Augustine's De Civitate Dei, the twenty-two books written between AD 413 and 426. Critical text: Bernhard Dombart and Alfons Kalb, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 47–48 (1955). English translation by Marcus Dods, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1st series, vol. 2 (1887), public domain.