Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism. The first argument came from a Roman philosopher called Sextius whom ...

This is a summation of Stoic philosophy and frames ... Seneca the ire of the public and the condemnation of later Roman historians. Seneca, Wilson imagines, attempts to make sense of this episode ...

Philosophers like Socrates, Seneca, Confucius, and Siddhartha Gautama offered solutions to problems such as suffering, greed, love, and living a worthwhile life. Here's a highlight reel of the ...

Snack food and drink were an essential part of these gatherings, with Roman philosopher Seneca writing of the noisy "cake sellers, the sausage man and confectioner" who each hawked food to hungry ...