His statues were broken down, his name everywhere erased, and his Golden House demolished.

With him ended the Claudian line of Emperors.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA (8 B.C.-65 A.D.) was born at Corduba in Spain, of a Spanish Roman family, and was educated at Rome.

His father was a teacher of rhetoric, a man of wealth and literary attainments.

Seneca began to practise at the bar at Rome, and was gaining considerable reputation, when in 41 he was banished to Corsica.

Eight years later he was recalled to be tutor of the young Nero, then eleven years old.