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The Daily Stoic
The speaker mentioned this play as the source of the daily quote.
Today's quote actually comes from one of Seneca's plays. People don't necessarily see Seneca as a playwright. In fact, James Rom points this out in this fascinating biography of Seneca that for a big...
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The speaker mentioned this play as the source of the daily quote.
Today's quote actually comes from one of Seneca's plays. People don't necessarily see Seneca as a playwright. In fact, James Rom points this out in this fascinating biography of Seneca that for a big chunk of the last 2000 years, it was inconceivable to scholars that Seneca, the playwright and Seneca, the philosopher were the same person. Many different people had the same names and so they just assumed that the themes and the styles seemed so different that they couldn't possibly be the same. I would argue they thought that the plays were so good that someone couldn't be that great at both things and what James Rom points out, which I stuck with me because I did a version of this in Lives of the Stokes. He said it would be like if Goethe had written Faust and was the right-hand advisor to Napoleon or Frederick the Great or something like that. Anyways, I'm getting ahead of myself. Basically, Seneca wrote some really good plays and this quote is from Seneca's play Thiestes, which is a very, very dark play.