Lucius Annaeus Seneca popularised the philosophy of the Stoics, the Greek Hellenistic school. This week, Rick Benitez from the University of Sydney examines Seneca's teaching that contentedness is ...

Seneca, or Lucius Annaeus Seneca, was a renowned Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright, widely known now for his Stoic philosophy. Seneca’s famous ‘Moral Letters to Lucilius’ are highly regarded ...

Two thousand years ago, under the reign of Roman emperor Tiberius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was learning from his tutor how to live a good life. His tutor was an adherent of Stoicism, a philosophy that ...

Is it better, when asked to serve a tyrant, to enter the inner circles and try to moderate his whims, or to stand aside, revelling in your integrity as his rages consume the world? Seneca - On the ...

German director Robert Schwentke’s directorial career has swung in a few directions; he has made Hollywood actioners like Flightplan with Jodie Foster, the adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife and a ...

ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive look at the Seneca trailer, a new historical drama starring John Malkovich that’s set to arrive next month. The Seneca trailer follows the story of the philosopher ...

"Aim for virtue, happiness will follow." German distributor Weltkino Filmverleih has revealed two official trailers for the film Seneca, the latest from director Robert Schwentke who has been working ...

Source: Pexels/Timur Weber/Public Domain. After his brother Novatus asked him “how anger may be soothed,” the Stoic philosopher Seneca penned his famous treatise, On Anger (c. 45 CE). Anger, says ...

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