![]() ![]() ![]() Seneca's teachers included Stoics such as Attalus, Sotion and Papirius Fabianus. According to his biographer, Tobias Reinhardt: "Seneca had a series of teachers in philosophy whom he later credited with having a formative influence on him, notably, they exposed him not just to Stoic moral doctrine, but to a wide range of other intellectual influences, and this breadth of outlook is reflected in Seneca's works." (2) ![]() On one occasion he wrote that the only thing which held him back from committing suicide was his "father's inability to bear the loss." (1) Seneca suffered severely from ill health, including asthma and tuberculosis. His father was an imperial procurator, who became an authority on rhetoric, the art of public speaking. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the son of Seneca the Elder, was born in Corduba in Hspania in about 2 BC. ![]()
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