How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management

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By James Romm *88

Published March 6, 2019

How to Keep Your Cool (Princeton University Press) is a translation of select passages from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca’s essay De Ira (“On Anger”), in which he decries anger and its ability to consume oneself.

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