Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Seneca the Younger, who was one of the first great writers to live his entire life in the world of the new Roman empire, after the fall of the Republic.

This generic idea of goodness could well have stemmed from Seneca the Younger. He was a philosopher ... To be virtuous, in Seneca’s book, you had to understand your passions and put them ...

Or, as Seneca put it: “Disaster is virtue’s opportunity.” The most commercially successful of the modern Stoic interpreters might be Ryan Holiday, whose books bear blurbs from former defense ...