Senaca CS Flashcards

(52 cards)

1
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whn senaca born

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4BC

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2
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when sanaca die

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65 AD

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3
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senaca thoughts

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stoic

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4
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where senaca born

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cordoba

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5
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nefew senaca

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Lucan

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6
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when senaca exiled by claudius

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41AD

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7
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where senaca exhiled

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Corsica

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8
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when senaca returns to rome

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49

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9
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why senaca die

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pisonian conspiracy

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10
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how many essays of senaca

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12

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11
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how many moral letters of senaca

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124

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12
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what are senaca’s three best know plays

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Medea, Thyestes, and Phaedra

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13
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what province is cordoba in

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baetica

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14
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how did sneaca get to rome

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his aunt took him

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15
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what did senaca eat

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not meat for a year

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16
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who taught senaca

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from Attalus the Stoic, and from Sotion and Papirius Fabianus,

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17
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what school did Sotion and Papirius Fabianus,

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both of whom belonged to the short-lived School of the Sextii,

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18
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What was senaca’s uncle

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GAius Galerius–prefect of egypt

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19
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what happened to senaca’s uncle

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shipwreck

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20
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when was senaca quaestor

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37

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21
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who ordered senaca to suicide first

22
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who did senaca affair with (prob. not)

23
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As depicted in a portrait by peter paul rubens how did senaca dioe

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pisonian conspiracy, bed out by teh veins

24
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whjat did senaca try to do in 62 and 64

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what is senaca's early work to his greiving mother
Consolation to helvia
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What is senaca's early work to one of claudkius freedman
consolation to claudiuswh
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who got senaca a praetorship
Aggrippina
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Suffect consul 56
Senaca
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Senaca writes what work which lampoons claudius
Apocolocyntosis
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what did senaca write to assure teh public that teh deth of brittanicus was an outlier and is about stoic ruilership
On clemency
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who made public attacks on senaca in 58
Publius Suillius Rufus
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What did senaca write defending hsi moneyed lifestyle
De Vita Beata ("On the Happy Life")
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Workj of senaca, encylopedia of teh natural world
Naturales quaestiones
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Senaca work which document his philosophical thoughts.
Letters to Lucilius
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Senaca's masterpeice
Thyestes
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how many tragedies of senaca
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almost certainly not written by Seneca (at least in its final form) since it contains accurate prophecies of both his and Nero's deaths.[73] This play closely resembles Seneca's plays in style, but was probably written some time after Seneca's death (perhaps under Vespasian) by someone influenced by Seneca and aware of the events of his lifetime.[74] Though attributed textually to Seneca, the attribution was early questioned by Petrarch,[75] and rejected by Justus Lipsius.
Octavia
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addressed to Lucilius
De Providentia
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addressed to Serenus
De Constantia Sapientis
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A study on the consequences and the control of anger – addressed to his brother Novatus
De Ira (On anger)
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Consoles her on the death of her son
Ad Marciam, De consolatione (To Marcia, On Consolation)
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addressed to Gallio
De Vita Beata (
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addressed to Serenus
De Otio
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addressed to Serenus (not De constantia sapientis)
De Tranquillitate Animi (On the tranquillity of mind)
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Essay expounding that any length of life is sufficient if lived wisely – addressed to Paulinus
De Brevitate Vitæ (On the shortness of life)
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Consoling him on the death of his brother.
De Consolatione ad Polybium (To Polybius, On consolation)
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Letter to his mother consoling her on his absence during exile.
Ad Helviam matrem, De consolatione
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written to Nero on the need for clemency as a virtue in an emperor.[76]
De Clementia (On Clemency)
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lost, but quoted from in Saint Augustine's The City of God 6.10–6.11.
De Superstitione (On Superstition)
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collection of 124 letters, sometimes divided into 20 books, dealing with moral issues written to Lucilius Junior. This work has possibly come down to us incomplete; the miscellanist Aulus Gellius refers, in his Noctes Atticae (12.2), to a 'book 22'.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium –
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an insight into ancient theories of cosmology, meteorology, and similar subjects.
Naturales quaestiones
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a satirical work.
Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii (