Note on Octavius 5.12 of Minucius Felix: An Unexpected Senecan Allusion

In this note an allusion recreated from Seneca’s De providentia is rescued as it was hidden in the Octavius of Minucius Felix, who recovers and adapts some topics from the Senecan text in a few brief lines which have been hitherto practically unnoticed; if the allusion is verified, a more recent rea...

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Autor: Valencia Constantino, Genaro
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Repositorio:Revista Archai (Online)
Idioma:español
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Palavra-chave:Seneca
Minucius Felix
Providence
Philosophy
Rhetorics
Textual Criticism
Séneca
Minucio Félix
providencia
filosofia
retórica
crítica textual
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Resumo:In this note an allusion recreated from Seneca’s De providentia is rescued as it was hidden in the Octavius of Minucius Felix, who recovers and adapts some topics from the Senecan text in a few brief lines which have been hitherto practically unnoticed; if the allusion is verified, a more recent reading of Seneca’s writing would make full argumentative sense.