Non trepidabo ad extrema: Mors, performance y ejemplaridad en SEN., epist. 54

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07/2025
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Universidad de La Laguna
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La muerte, el drama y la ejemplaridad constituyen tres ejes centrales para abordar el epistolario senecano. En consonancia con esto, en estas cartas el momento de la muerte es presentado como una performance decisiva para la valoración de la propia vida. Partiendo de estas consideraciones, el presente artículo procura demostrar que la singular meditatio mortis que la epist. 54 dramatiza apunta a configurar al ego epistolar como exemplum de cómo debe enfrentarse el momento final de acuerdo con los preceptos estoicos. Séneca era consciente de que las circunstancias de su propia muerte pondrían a prueba su larga preparación para este último trance. Por este motivo, esta carta bien puede ser leída como la puesta en escena de un ensayo con miras a la performance ejemplar finalmente ejecutada por el filósofo durante su muerte forzada en el año 65 d.C., circunstancia que, por supuesto, solo nos es accesible a través de representaciones posteriores (TAC., ann.15, 60-64). Pese a su ambigüedad, lo que el retrato de Tácito destaca es el pleno acuerdo entre oratio y vita logrado por Séneca en el momento de su muerte y confirma así el carácter vinculante de textos como la epist. 54.
Death, drama and exemplarity are three focal points to approach Seneca’s letter collection. According to this, in these letters the moment of death is presented as a crucial performance for assessing one’s life.Taking all these points into account, the current article aims at showing that the meditatio mortis featured in epist. 54 intends to build theepistolary ego as an exemplum of how the final exit should be faced according to the precepts of Stoicism. Seneca was aware that the circumstances of his own death would put his long preparation for this moment to the test. For this reason, this letter can be read as the staging of a rehearsal with the aim of achieving an exemplary performance, which the philosopher could finally perform during his enforced death in 65 CE., a circumstance that, of course, we can only access via later representations (TAC., ann.15, 60-64). In spite of its ambiguity, what Tacitus’ portrait emphasizes is the full agreement between oratio and vita accomplished by Seneca in his death, and this confirms the binding force of texts such as epist. 54.
Death, drama and exemplarity are three focal points to approach Seneca’s letter collection. According to this, in these letters the moment of death is presented as a crucial performance for assessing one’s life.Taking all these points into account, the current article aims at showing that the meditatio mortis featured in epist. 54 intends to build theepistolary ego as an exemplum of how the final exit should be faced according to the precepts of Stoicism. Seneca was aware that the circumstances of his own death would put his long preparation for this moment to the test. For this reason, this letter can be read as the staging of a rehearsal with the aim of achieving an exemplary performance, which the philosopher could finally perform during his enforced death in 65 CE., a circumstance that, of course, we can only access via later representations (TAC., ann.15, 60-64). In spite of its ambiguity, what Tacitus’ portrait emphasizes is the full agreement between oratio and vita accomplished by Seneca in his death, and this confirms the binding force of texts such as epist. 54.
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