German director Robert Schwentke’s directorial career has swung in a few directions; he has made Hollywood actioners like Flightplan with Jodie Foster, the adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife and a ...

"Aim for virtue, happiness will follow." German distributor Weltkino Filmverleih has revealed two official trailers for the film Seneca, the latest from director Robert Schwentke who has been working ...

Two thousand years ago, under the reign of Roman emperor Tiberius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was learning from his tutor how to live a good life. His tutor was an adherent of Stoicism, a philosophy that ...

“Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero” by James Romm (Alfred A. Knopf, 320 pages, $27.95) Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Seneca's musings on the tension between public and private life remain as approachable and fresh as they were two millennia ago. Wilson’s point of departure in her life of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 ...

ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive look at the Seneca trailer, a new historical drama starring John Malkovich that’s set to arrive next month. The Seneca trailer follows the story of the philosopher ...

Source: Pexels/Timur Weber/Public Domain. After his brother Novatus asked him “how anger may be soothed,” the Stoic philosopher Seneca penned his famous treatise, On Anger (c. 45 CE). Anger, says ...