The Roman philosopher Seneca’s essay “On a Happy Life” is full of lessons that are as pertinent today as they were two millennia ago. “All men, brother Gallio, wish to live happily ...

Seneca draws on Roman historian Tacitus’ account of the great thinker’s reluctant suicide in AD 65. A celebrated public figure, Seneca is also on the young but already completely crazy Emperor ...

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism. The first argument came from a Roman philosopher called Sextius whom ...

In his dark historical comedy “Seneca,” Robert Schwentke explores themes of power, corruption and hypocrisy as he traces the fateful final days of the Roman philosopher and dramatist that ...

For Valeria, this short phrase had huge significance. The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger, in his own works, had used this exact sentence to refer to a history of the Roman Civil War ...

Nero and Seneca, by Eduardo Barrón (1904). Source: Wikimedia commons/E Barrón/public domain. Tyranny is back on the table, but the ancients thought hard about how to avoid it. One of their most ...

The Roman philosopher Seneca and the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder both opposed drinking at the baths. The poet Martial complains about one sloppy bather who "doesn't know how to go home from the ...

Shot in and around an open colonnaded pavilion constructed in the Moroccan desert, Seneca draws on Roman historian Tacitus ... as a Stoic philosopher preaching reason, restraint and the virtues ...