Registration opens:
May 01st, 2026

Great Books Reading and Discussion Group

Please join us to discuss “On Tranquility of Mind” by Seneca (4 BCE TO 65 CE).

We invite you to share in an exploration of highly regarded classics of literature, history and philosophy through a discussion technique known as “Shared Inquiry.” Selections are from Great Conversations 5, available for purchase at the Main Library front desk at the reduced price of $10, thanks to a generous donation from the Friends of the Library.

Synopsis: Seneca was a Roman philosopher, orator, statesman, and playwright. He was a chief advisor to the emperor Nero. Seneca advocated a philosophy of Stoicism, the belief that a person’s overriding motivator ought to be a sense of duty to a cause or commitment. This month’s selection, De Tranquillitate Animi (“On Tranquility of Mind”) comes from Seneca’s Moral Essays. Written in the form of a philosophical dialog between Serenus and Seneca, it is a prescription for the achievement of spiritual tranquility, or “inner peace.”

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