On Discursiveness In Reading

In today's episode, we will be listening to Letter 2 from Moral Letters to Lucilius. In this letter, Seneca instructs Lucilius on the importance of reading a few select authors, rather than reading a large and varied amount. He even goes so far to say that the reading of many books is a distraction and it does us more harm than good to be acquainted with many authors over thoroughly digesting just a handful of them.