I think this theory of the big Stoic man who has no emotion is not helpful and not representative.” But Holiday, a father of ...

Stoicism takes its name from a covered walkway ... Seneca was the tutor of the future emperor Nero and Aurelius the father of Commodus, two of the most incompetent and depraved of all Rome ...

As a young boy, Seneca was brought to Rome, where he formally began studies in rhetoric and philosophy under the tutelage of Attalus, a well-known Stoic philosopher and friend of his father.

While some find that in a church or synagogue, a growing number of people in Nashville are gathering to learn about an ancient philosophy known as Stoicism.