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A 3rd century marble bust of Seneca, after an original bust of the 1st century; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Seneca was brought to Rome as a boy by his aunt. It was there that he received his formal training as an orator and was educated in philosophy within the school of the Sextii, a group that combined Stoicism with elements of Neo-Pythagoreanism.1