Anger, mercy, revenge
By: Seneca ; translated by Robert A. Kaster and Martha C. Nussbaum.
Contributors: Kaster, Robert A.; Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Series: The complete works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780226748412
Subjects: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, -- ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor 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--the latter penned as advice for the then young emperor, Nero--and The Pumpkinification of Claudius the God, a brilliant satire lampooning the end of the reign of the emperor. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Seneca and his world; title: On anger / translated by Robert A. Kaster; title: Translator's introduction; title: On anger; title: On clemency / translated by Robert A. Kaster; title: On clemency; title: The pumpkinification of Claudius the god / translated by Martha C. Nussbaum; title: The pumpkinification of Claudius the god.