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 Long-time Downtowner and retired professor of classics Celica Milovanovic, invites you to join us for our second reading of the classics as we delve into Seneca: Letters From a Stoic. Our time together will include reading excerpts from the text followed by conversation. 

     In preparation, Celica offers some guidelines suggesting a smaller selection of letters that illustrate some of Senea’s characteristic themes. Here is that list:

On Philosophy in general, and Stoic in particular: why study it, what does it do, what is it good for:

     Letters 5;  6;  8; 11; 16;  41; 48;  65;  90

On Learning in general:

     Letters 2;  27;  33;  88 (liberal studies) 

On Daily Living in a big, noisy city that was Rome, or, occasionally,  in the country:

     Letters 7 (public shows); 15 (exercising); 18 (holidays); 28 (traveling); 47 (slavery); 56 (noisy surroundings); 63 (grief); 77 (suicide); 78 (illness); 83 (drunkenness); 86 (bathhouses)

Advice on How to Live, in the sense of “don’t do that, do this”

     Letters 104; 105; 107

On Friendship:

     Letters 3; 6; 9

On Old Age:

     Letters 12; 26

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