Anger, Mercy, Revenge

ISBN-13: 9780226748429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca; Robert A. Kaster; Martha C. Nussbaum

Opis

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.