Podcasts that mention 📚 On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

Seneca wrote on the shortness of Life two thousand years ago over 2000 years ago now

The host mentions Seneca's book and its age.

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and uh seneca has uh we've got a stupid satire that seneca wrote called the pumpkinification of claudius that still survives today

Donald Robertson mentions a satire written by Seneca titled 'The Pumpkinification of Claudius'.

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This is he actually says so explicitly in a letter of consolation that he writes to his friend marsha who had lost an adult son

The guest mentions Seneca writing a letter of consolation to his friend Marcia.

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and Seneca does it at the end of on Inger

The speaker mentions Seneca's 'On Anger' as a source for a philosophical journaling exercise.

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'Letters to Lucilius' is a good example; that's addressed to someone, but you can see him working out death and grief in that work. Same with 'On the Shortness of Life'; it's an intellectual exercise and a spiritual exercise. They didn't have a pre-fitted philosophy or theology that they could live by; they had to come up with it themselves, and you can see them doing that in the work.

The guest discusses 'On the Shortness of Life' in relation to Seneca's intellectual and spiritual journey, emphasizing its significance as a vital text in Stoicism.

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