As a humanist saint Seneca the Younger

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plato, seneca, , aristotle in medieval manuscript illustration (c. 1325–35)


the christian church favorably disposed towards seneca , writings, , church leader tertullian possessively referred him our seneca.


medieval writers , works (such golden legend, erroneously presents nero witness seneca s suicide) believed seneca had been converted christian faith saint paul, , humanists regarded fatal bath kind of disguised baptism.


dante placed seneca in first circle of hell, or limbo. seneca makes appearance character in monteverdi s opera l incoronazione di poppea.


girolamo cardano in apologia of nero, neronis encomium basel, 1562, printed in english nero: exemplary life (inkstone, 2012), claims seneca fraud, fake philosopher, corrupter of nero, , deserved death.



the pseudo-seneca roman bust found @ herculaneum, 1 of series of similar sculptures known since renaissance, once identified seneca. commonly identified hesiod








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