Seneca (2023)

Jefferson Mays: Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : Seneca grew unimaginable rich writing speeches justifying Nero's crimes, like the killing of his mother. He got the name "Seneca praedives," Fat-cat Seneca.

• [last lines] 

  Narrator : Later, Nero would desert his post as a commander. He was tried in absentia and sentenced to death. He killed himself in a fashion more cowardly than Seneca's, but shorter. It was reported by Seneca's scribe that his last words were a favorite quote from Cicero, often repeated by Seneca as if they were his own. The words apply to our world perhaps more than his: "Male parta, male dilabuntur," What is wrongly gained is wrongly lost.

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : Seneca was a senator and considered the wisest man in Rome. He also got the job of tutoring Nero in all things and became the life coach to our city's mass-murdering president for life, a terrible idea that would later end Seneca's life.