Bust of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180AD)
Category: Ancient Philosophy
(Pictures: The Dying Seneca by Peter Paul Rubens, Source: (Wikimedia Commons) and On the Shortness of Life by Penguin Books. Recently I delved
Seneca the Younger (source: See below) We’ve all been there. We say don’t we — I’ll wait until tomorrow to
Fortune spinning her wheel. From Boccaccio’s De Cassibus Virorum IIIustruim. (Source: Wikipedia) Inconstancy is my very essence; it is the
(Source: Penguin Random House) It’s a strange and comforting thing to consider that a Roman Emperor, who lived and ruled