New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

WRITER

Seneca the Elder

54 BC - 39

Photo of Seneca the Elder

Icon of person Seneca the Elder

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 444,343 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Seneca the Elder is the 443rd most popular writer (up from 532nd in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Spain (up from 139th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Page views of Seneca the Elders by language


Among WRITERS

Among writers, Seneca the Elder ranks 443 out of 5,755Before him are Christopher Marlowe, Enid Blyton, Frantz Fanon, Mika Waltari, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Comte de Lautréamont. After him are Ágota Kristóf, Gabriela Mistral, Qu Yuan, Ève Curie, Livius Andronicus, and Richard Bach.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

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

Others Born in 54 BC

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 39

Go to all Rankings

In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Seneca the Elder ranks 119 out of 2,932Before him are Alfonso V of Aragon (1396), Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920), Miguel Primo de Rivera (1870), Vincent of Saragossa (300), Ibn Tufail (1110), and Henry II of Navarre (1503). After him are Pelagius of Asturias (685), Miguel de Unamuno (1864), Manuel Azaña (1880), Baltasar Gracián (1601), Javier Solana (1942), and Margaret Theresa of Spain (1651).

Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Seneca the Elder ranks 10Before him are Quintilian (35), Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600), Bartolomé de las Casas (1484), Alfonso X of Castile (1221), Lucan (39), and Martial (40). After him are Henry IV of Castile (1425), Gaius Julius Hyginus (-64), Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881), Francisco de Quevedo (1584), Tirso de Molina (1579), and Camilo José Cela (1916).