en route in a shipwreck. His aunt's influence helped Seneca be elected quaestor (probably after AD 37), which also earned him the right to sit in the Roman Senate.

Politics and exile

Seneca's early career as a senator seems to have been successful and he was praised for his oratory. In his writings, Seneca has nothing good to say about Caligula and frequently depicts him as a monster. Cassius Dio relates a story that Caligula

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