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Yes, because Marcus doesn't mention Seneca in The Meditations, nor does Epictetus, or in fact, as…

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Yes, because Marcus doesn't mention Seneca in The Meditations, nor does Epictetus, or in fact, as…

Donald J. Robertson
Mar 2, 2021
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Yes, because Marcus doesn't mention Seneca in The Meditations, nor does Epictetus, or in fact, as…

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Yes, because Marcus doesn't mention Seneca in The Meditations, nor does Epictetus, or in fact, as far as I recall, any subsequent Stoic author. Cassius Dio implies that Thrasea had said that people who had collaborated with Nero, like Seneca, should have their memories damned, i.e., never be mentioned again. Marcus had read him, although Fronto despised…

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