Features & Benefits
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero.
- Anger, Mercy, Revenge comprises three key writings: the moral essays On Anger and On Clemency and the Apocolocyntosis, a brilliant satire lampooning the end of the reign of Claudius.
- Seneca is among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities.
- The book is edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum.
- The collection restores Seneca to his rightful place among the classical writers.
- Anger, Mercy, Revenge is a work as complicated, astute, and ambitious as its author.