This paper examines the reference to Pompeia, the daughter of Pompey the Great, in Seneca’s Consolatio ad Polybium 15, 1. According to most scholars, it seems that Seneca makes a mistake by confounding Pompeia with Julia, the daughter of Julius Caesar and wife of Pompey. I rule out precedent readings of the passage and, in my analysis, I suggest that, by describing Pompeia with an expression which recalls Julia, Seneca wants to hint at the role that Pompeia had to play in Julius Caesar’s plan, after the death of Julia herself.

An innocent confusion? A note to Pompeia in Seneca’s ad Pol. 15, 1 / Russo, Martina. - In: MAIA. - ISSN 0025-0538. - 74:2(2022), pp. 390-401.

An innocent confusion? A note to Pompeia in Seneca’s ad Pol. 15, 1

Martina Russo
2022

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This paper examines the reference to Pompeia, the daughter of Pompey the Great, in Seneca’s Consolatio ad Polybium 15, 1. According to most scholars, it seems that Seneca makes a mistake by confounding Pompeia with Julia, the daughter of Julius Caesar and wife of Pompey. I rule out precedent readings of the passage and, in my analysis, I suggest that, by describing Pompeia with an expression which recalls Julia, Seneca wants to hint at the role that Pompeia had to play in Julius Caesar’s plan, after the death of Julia herself.
2022
Seneca; civil war; Claudius; Suetonius; historical exempla
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An innocent confusion? A note to Pompeia in Seneca’s ad Pol. 15, 1 / Russo, Martina. - In: MAIA. - ISSN 0025-0538. - 74:2(2022), pp. 390-401.
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