Seneca is best known for his works on rhetoric, only parts of which survive, including Oratorum Sententiae Divisiones Colores and Suasoriae. His son, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger) (c.4 bc–65 ad) was a Roman statesman, philosopher, and dramatist. Born in Spain, he was banished to Corsica by Claudius in 41, charged with adultery; in 49 his sentence was repealed and he became tutor to Nero, through the influence of Nero’s mother and Claudius’ wife, Agrippina. Seneca was a dominant figure in the early years of Nero’s reign and was appointed consul in 57; he retired in 62. His subsequent implication in a plot on Nero’s life led to his forced suicide. As a philosopher, he expounded the ethics of Stoicism in such works as Epistulae Morales. Seneca also wrote nine plays.