2009-11-14 - Seneca - philosophy and tragedy

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DATE : Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +1000
Entered in Database : 2009-11-13 14:00:00
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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 achieved by a simple, unperturbed life in accordance with nature and that human suffering should be accepted. He looks at Seneca as a writer of tragedies, and at the tragedy of Seneca's own life: he was tutor and later adviser to the Emperor Nero, who eventually ordered him to take his own life.

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