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 ...

In his dark historical comedy “Seneca,” Robert Schwentke explores themes of power, corruption and hypocrisy as he traces the fateful final days of the Roman philosopher and dramatist that followed his ...

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 ...

What was it about writers of the classical world that encouraged them to speak as moral guides, to encapsulate life truths in pithy phrases? In part it’s because they made little distinction between ...

“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.