It seems that imprisoning him in the cauldron of scattered knowledge that was Corsica with more than one excellent tutor at his disposal was the design of none other than Fate herself in order to give the world one of its greatest exponents of this fascinating and enduring branch of Greek philosophy. Seneca is one of Stoic philosophy’s most widely read and beloved writers, second only perhaps to Marcus Aurelius, author of the immortal Meditations.
