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Seneca the Elder

54 BC - 39

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Elder ( SEN-ik-ə; c. 54 BC – c. AD 39), also known as Seneca the Rhetorician, was a Roman writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Corduba, Hispania. He wrote a collection of reminiscences about the Roman schools of rhetoric, six books of which are extant in a more or less complete state and five others in epitome only. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seneca the Elder has received more than 496,295 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Seneca the Elder is the 424th most popular writer (up from 442nd in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Spain (up from 119th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Spanish Writer.

Seneca the Elder is most famous for his work "Naturales Quaestiones" which is a series of essays on natural phenomena.

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  • 500k

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  • 72.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Seneca the Elder ranks 424 out of 7,302. Before him are Heinrich Mann, John Keats, Arion, Sholem Aleichem, Lactantius, and Constantine P. Cavafy. After him are Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nadine Gordimer, Vladimir Vysotsky, Philip Roth, William of Rubruck, and Phaedrus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 54 BC, Seneca the Elder ranks 1. After him is Mariamne I. Among people deceased in 39, Seneca the Elder ranks 2. Before him is Herod Antipas.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Seneca the Elder ranks 110 out of 3,355. Before him are Paco Rabanne (1934), Louis I of Spain (1707), Pelagius of Asturias (685), Manuel de Falla (1876), Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852), and Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (1470). After him are Antipope Benedict XIII (1328), Joaquín Rodrigo (1901), Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566), Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545), Peter of Castile (1334), and Juan Ponce de León (1460).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Seneca the Elder ranks 10. Before him are Lope de Vega (1562), Quintilian (35), Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600), Bartolomé de las Casas (1484), Alfonso X of Castile (1221), and Lucan (39). After him are Martial (40), Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881), Henry IV of Castile (1425), Francisco de Quevedo (1584), Gaius Julius Hyginus (-64), and Judah Halevi (1079).

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