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Tubero was a radical Stoic, thus inadequate to Roman political life: this is the judgement of both Cicero and Valerius Maximus about him. But Seneca rereads his example and praises him, transforming his political defeats in a philosophical victory.
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The reception of historical examples gives us a view of the developing of cultural values.
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This page is a summary of: Seneca and the Moon: The Cultural Importance of our Satellite, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0800-6_45.
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