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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,”
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“Seneca wrote on the shortness of Life two thousand years ago over 2000 years ago now”
Speaker Modern Wisdom How To Cope With The Shortness Of Life - Dean Rickles 2022-12-22 Listen at 6:08
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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”
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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”
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“and Seneca does it at the end of on Inger”