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Seneca the Younger

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Death of Sereneca and the Death of Peter

There is this rather extraordinary coincidence, which must have been very influential on early christian thinkers. We do know of the poor gets to rome around 60 and we also know that peter might have been there. And they are both persecd to tradition, wants them both persecuted by nero. The letters themselves are a very nearly product. They're not really much to look at, but it's quite clear that whoever wrote them wants to a really a forg dis link. Now we come to the death of seneca, which became extremely famous. Its sort of imitated, he deliberately imitated, the great death of socrates. And as paintingremostrate, the death

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