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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE65 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 Senecawhose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emersonto 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, Neroand 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 comicmaking Anger, Mercy, Revenge a work just as complicated, astute, and ambitious as its author.

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Author

Lucius Annaeus Seneca; Robert A Kaster; Martha C Nussbaum; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226748535

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Literary Collections

Rating

4.44 / 5 (45 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14