Seneca the Elder
Lucius (possibly Marcus ) Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the Elder and Seneca Maior or Seneca orator called ( * ca 54 BC in Córdoba, † ca 39 AD) was a Roman rhetorician and writer.
He was the father of Seneca the Younger Lucius Junius Gallio and Annaeanus and grandfather of the poet Lucan.
His main works are:
- Controversiae ( controversy ), a ten -volume work, the 74 treated by rhetoricians legal cases - usually in direct speech -, and is one of the main sources of information on practical rhetoric at this time.
- Suasoriae ( advice ), shows in seven cases the discussion with arguments and counter- arguments.
In addition, some fragments have been preserved, among other things, to other works, a history of Rome, to point.
Editions, translations and commentaries
- Lennart Håkanson (ed.): L. Annaeus Seneca maior. Oratorum et rhetorum sententiae divisiones colores, Leipzig 1989.
- Seneca the Elder: Sentences, graduations, staining of speakers and speech teachers, Translator, and note of Otto and Eva Schönberger, Würzburg 2004.
- Stefan Feddern (ed. ): The Suasorien the older Seneca. Introduction, text and commentary, Berlin [ ua] 2013.