Seneca: The Philosopher Ordered to Kill Himself

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger often known as Seneca, supposedly born between 4 BC- 65 AD, is one of the most widely read philosophers of Stoicism; a philosophy grounded in virtue, reason, and more importantly self-restraint. Seneca wrote two tragedy plays; Medea and Thyestes, which are said to have had greatly influenced William Shakespeare. His other famous works include Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Letters from a Stoic) which is a collection of 124 letters offering practical advice on managing grief, wealth, anger, and success, and De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life) which is a highly popular essay arguing that life is wasted by human distraction rendering life short.Whether Nero was sadistically mad tyrant who loved torturing people or that is an exaggerated image of his flaws to flatter the political regimes that succeeded him, is a question of research (Beard.M. 2021). Anways, moving on... Many of Seneca's quotes regarding his intellectual pessimism have pr…