Seneca, in full Lucius Annaeus Seneca, byname Seneca the Younger, (born c. 4 BCE, Corduba (now Córdoba), Spain—died 65 CE, Rome [Italy]), Roman philosopher, statesman, orator, and tragedian. He was Rome’s leading intellectual figure in the mid-1st century CE and was virtual ruler with his friends of the Roman world between 54 and 62, during the first phase of the emperor Nero’s reign.
