Lucius Annaeus Seneca; Corduba, ca. 4 BC - Rome, 65 was a Stoic philosopher and one of the most famous lawyers, writers and intellectuals of the Roman Empire. Also known as Seneca (or Seneca), the Younger, the Philosopher, or even the Youth, his literary and philosophical work, taken as a model of the Stoic thinker during the Renaissance, inspired the development of tragedy in European Renaissance dramaturgy.
Seneca was simultaneously a successful playwright, one of the richest people in Rome, a famous statesman and advisor to the emperor. Seneca had to negotiate, persuade and plan his way through life. Rather than philosophizing about the security of a university chair, he had to deal constantly with uncooperative and powerful people and face disaster, exile, fragile health and death sentences. Seneca took risks and had great achievements.