Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE to 65 CE), also called Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and satirist from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. Since he was the son of Seneca the Elder, a famous teacher of rhetoric, Seneca is often also called Seneca The Younger. Seneca was born in Corduba, Hispania Baetica (present-day Spain). Around 1 CE, he became a political star in Rome. Then in 41 CE, following a conflict with Emperor Claudius' wife, he was exiled to Corsica. He was allowed back to Rome under the condition of tutoring the future Emperor Nero—one of the most tyrannical emperors in Roman history. Eventually, a plot against Nero became connected with his name, and he was forced to take his own life.