Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4B.C-65AD), was brought to Rome from Spain as a child, where he studied rhetoric. He soon acquired a reputation at the bar, arousing the jealousy of Caligula who banished him to Corsica. There, he later became an intimate of Julia, neice of the Emperor Claudius, bringing about his recall to Rome where he became tutor to the young Nero. After again losing favour with the Imperial dynasty Seneca withdrew from public life, but was eventually implicated in the conspiracy of Piso. He committed suicide soon afterwards, but his fame as an orator and moralist had by then become firmly established. He is best known for his Dialogues and his Moral Letters to Lucilius,