Anger, Mercy, Revenge

The University of Chicago Press

Anger, Mercy, RevengeAuthor(s): Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Robert A Kaster, Martha C Nussbaum, Robert A. Kaster, Martha C. Nussbaum\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226748412, 978-0226748412\nSynopsis\nLucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE to 65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. Here, with the publication of \""Anger, Mercy, Revenge\"" and \""Natural Questions\"", the University of Chicago Press proudly inaugurates \""The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca\"", 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 Erasmus to Emerson - to his rightful place .