Sublime

Seneca and Burrus were both from the equites (“knightly”) class, not the senatorial class, and they seem to have been always at a certain distance from the world of the senators. Most of Seneca’s close friends, even during his years in power, came from the knight’s class. But these knights were far more able than the freedman had been to communicat

great Stoic teacher, Musonius Rufus.

tous te crieront la même chose dans toutes les écoles : péripatéticiens, académiciens, stoïciens, cyniques. Est-il un homme, si la vertu lui plaît, qui paisse plaire au peuple ? C'est par de méchantes voies que s'obtient sa faveur : il faut se rendre semblable à lui : il ne t'approuve pas, s'il ne se reconnaît en toi. Or le plus important de beauco

The Annaeus family from which the Senecas came is likely to have been the result of such an intermarriage: the name Annaeus seems to be non-Roman. 8 Compromise between diverse social groups was thus an essential habit in the Annaeus family background.

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