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The article anlyses Seneca's letter 50 and the image of blindness as a symbol for human condition under passions, with reference both to poetic models as Homer and to philosophical ones as Plato and the Stoics.

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it shows how Seneca tries to matches poetic and philosophical interests in order to make his reasoning clear and easy to remember

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This page is a summary of: Cegados por el vicio. Una lectura de la epístola 50 de Séneca, ΠΗΓΗ/FONS, December 2020, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
DOI: 10.20318/fons.2020.5143.
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