+1 Insightful But your opening sentence would be much more effective with a bit of rewording; "inspired many stoics like Seneca to pass on the idea" is hard to

+1 Insightful But your opening sentence would be much more effective with a bit of rewording; "inspired many stoics like Seneca to pass on the idea" is hard to parse, and fatally ambiguous. Did Seneca "pass [the idea] on" (ie, propogate / endorse it), or did he "[take a] pass on it" (ie, reject it). Later context makes it clear you meant the former. Anyway thanks for the links, HTH!