As Nero’s tutor, Seneca had considerable political influence in the early years of that emperor’s reign. With his friend Burrus, Seneca introduced fiscal and judicial reforms and fostered a more humane attitude toward slaves. But, as the favorite of a tyrant, he also had to condone—or to contrive—the murder of Nero’s mother, Agrippina.
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