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	Podcast:		The Philosopher's Zone - Program podcast
	Episode:		Seneca: philosophy and tragedy
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:24:59
	Publish Date:		2012-07-07 22:30:00
	Description:		Lucius Annaeus Seneca popularised the philosophy of the Stoics, the Greek Hellenistic school. This week, Rick Benitez from the University of Sydney examines Seneca's teaching that contentedness is achieved by a simple, unperturbed life in accordance with nature and that human suffering should be accepted. He looks at Seneca as a writer of tragedies, and at the tragedy of Seneca's own life: he was tutor and later adviser to the Emperor Nero, who eventually ordered him to take his own life.
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