Death Seneca the Younger



manuel domínguez sánchez, suicide of seneca (1871), museo del prado


in ad 65, seneca caught in aftermath of pisonian conspiracy, plot kill nero. although unlikely seneca part of conspiracy, nero ordered him kill himself. seneca followed tradition severing several veins in order bleed death, , wife pompeia paulina attempted share fate. cassius dio, wished emphasize relentlessness of nero, focused on how seneca had attended last-minute letters, , how death hastened soldiers. generation after julio-claudian emperors, tacitus wrote account of suicide, in view of republican sympathies perhaps romanticized. according account, nero ordered seneca s wife saved. wounds bound , made no further attempt kill herself. seneca himself, age , diet blamed slow loss of blood , extended pain rather quick death; took poison, not fatal. after dictating last words scribe, , circle of friends attending him in home, immersed himself in warm bath, expected speed blood flow , ease pain. tacitus wrote, carried bath, steam of suffocated, , burnt without of usual funeral rites. had directed in codicil of will, when in height of wealth , power thinking of life’s close.








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