Cost of Glory

65 - Seneca, The Madness of Hercules


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The Greatest hero of all, Hercules - told by Seneca: Billionaire, Politician, Stoic Philosopher, and... Tragic Playwright.

Highlights and power quotes from Seneca's "The Madness of Hercules":  
in a new, brilliant, poetic translation by one of America's great poets, Dana Gioia

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