First published at 19:58 UTC on December 8th, 2020.
Recorded in December 2020. Seneca the Younger flourished during the first century A. D. The translation, by Richard M. Gummere, was published between 1917 and 1925.
(The picture in the thumbnail is a portrait, by Rubens, of an ancient bust once th…
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Recorded in December 2020. Seneca the Younger flourished during the first century A. D. The translation, by Richard M. Gummere, was published between 1917 and 1925.
(The picture in the thumbnail is a portrait, by Rubens, of an ancient bust once thought to be of Seneca. Rubens was very fond of Seneca, and used to have his works read out loud to him as he painted. This bust was once called "The Farnese Seneca," but is now thought to depict Hesiod. It was, however, how people envisaged Seneca for hundreds of years, from the Renaissance onward, and so I make use of its image. Its rough nobility is fitting to his character.)
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:05 Greetings from Seneca to his friend Lucilius
02:20 Therefore, Lucilius, do as you write me that you are doing
04:04 You may desire to know how I, who preach to you so freely, am practising
05:20 What is the state of things, then?
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