He wrote "Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember" in his play about the madness of Heracles, Hercules Furens, and recommended daily self-examinations of a person's conscience in his treatise on anger, De Ira.
One of this author's plays includes a passage about a second Argo sailing past the ocean's known bounds, which Christopher Columbus interpreted as a prophecy about the discovery of the New World. Another of this author's plays ends with a father attempting to put the pieces of his son's dead body back together after a messenger describes how that son's chariot was brutally attacked. Yet another of his plays depicts an unnatural grove as a locus horridus where Atreus kills the children of Thyestes. English revenge tragedies imitated this author's plays by being divided into five acts and including a ghost. He wrote "Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember" in his play about the madness of Heracles, Hercules Furens, and recommended daily self-examinations of a person's conscience in his treatise on anger, De Ira. For 10 points, name this Silver Age Roman author of bloody tragedies, a Stoic philosopher who also tutored Nero.
One of this author's plays includes a passage about a second Argo sailing past the ocean's known bounds, which Christopher Columbus interpreted as a prophecy about the discovery of the New World.
Seneca the Younger [or Lucius Annaeus Seneca]