Lucius Annaeus Cornutus Quotes

Lucius Annaeus Cornutus was a Roman Stoic philosopher of the first century AD, a freedman of the Annaean family from Leptis Magna in North Africa, who taught philosophy in Rome under the emperors Claudius and Nero and counted among his pupils the satirist Persius and, briefly, the poet Lucan. His Theological Compendium, an allegorical handbook of Greek mythology in the Stoic mode, interpreted the gods of the popular religion as personifications of cosmic and ethical principles, and exerted a long influence on Christian and humanist allegorical reading of pagan texts. The quotes below are attributed to Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, organized by topic.