Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, a dramatist, and in one work (Apocolocyntosis) a satirist from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. c. 10 BC – April 10, 65; died at about 75. Alive at the same time as Jesus Christ, Augustus, Ovid, Paul the Apostle, and Plutarch. Wiki link