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Anger, Mercy, Revenge (De Ira, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE — 65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca — whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson — to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities.

Anger, Mercy, Revenge comprises three key writings: the moral essays On Anger and On Clemency — which were penned as advice for the then young emperor, Nero — and the Apocolocyntosis, a brilliant satire lampooning the end of the reign of Claudius. Friend and tutor, as well as philosopher, Seneca welcomed the age of Nero in tones alternately serious, poetic, and comic — making Anger, Mercy, Revenge a work just as complicated, astute, and ambitious as its author.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 272
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780226748412
  • Genres
  • philosophy, classics, ancient
  • Release date
  • 2010