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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (sh) and Ascomycetes (medicine)


Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (sh)




born งใ 4 BC, Corduba, Spain
died AD 65, Rome

Roman philosopher, statesman, and playwright.

He was trained as an orator and began a career in Politics and law in Rome งใ AD 31. While banished to Corsica for adultery (41-49), he wrote the philosophical treatises Consolationes. He later became tutor to the future emperor Nero and from 54 to 62 was a leading intellectual figure in Rome. An adherent of Stoicism, he wrote Other philosophical works, including Moral Letters, a collection of essays on moral problems. He also left a series of verse tragedies marked by violence and bloodshed, including Thyestes, Hercules, and Medea. His plays influenced the development of Elizabethan drama during the Renaissance, notably William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (1593-94) and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (งใ 1613).


Seneca, marble bust, 3rd century, after an original bust of the 1st century; in the Staatliche ...

By courtesy of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany


Ascomycetes (medicine)


Ascomycetes


A class of fungi characterised by the presence of asci and ascospores. Such fungi have generally two distinct reproductive phases, the sexual or perfect stage and the asexual or imperfect stage. Ajellomyces capsulatum and Ajellomyces dermatitidis are pathogenic members of this class.

Origin: G. Askos, a bag, + mykes, mushroom