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James Romm

James Romm
James Romm is the editor and translator of Seneca’s How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life (Princeton) and the author of Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero (Knopf). He is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and lives in Barrytown, New York.


Did Seneca Write a Treatise on Anger in Response to Unstable Leaders?

"Your anger is a kind of madness." The Ancients Talking About Twitter, Probably
March 26, 2019  By James Romm
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