Anger is temporary madness: the Stoics knew how to curb it Massimo Pigliucci Aeon, Novemver 1, 2017 Rockwell Kent's illustration of Captain Ahab from the 1937 edition of Moby Dick. Photo by Rex Features Massimo Pigliucci Massimo Pigliucci is professor of philosophy at City College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His latest book is How to Be a Sto..