Ces deux fameux traités, La Colère et La Clémence, sont un réquisitoire contre la violence. L’Homme apaisé illustre la fatalité du malheur mais aussi les certitudes d’une vie pacifiée.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca or Seneca the Younger); ca. 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero, who later forced him to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to have him assassinated.