![]() The present analysis is focused on the specific way in which direct quotations and allusions are assimilated within Seneca’s philosophical argumentation. Seneca suggests that he himself is about to build on Ovid’s earlier “scientific” discoveries so as to elucidate more effectively, from a philosophical viewpoint, the causes and the consequences of the imminent deluge. This chapter explores anew the significance of Seneca’s intertextual dialogue with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which Seneca approaches as a proto-scientific text. Within this epilogue, Seneca makes a double allusion to the Ovidian story of the cataclysm at Metamorphoses 1.262–312 and to the myth of Phaethon and the conflagration at Metamorphoses 1.747–2.400. ![]() ![]() The third book of the Naturales quaestiones, in which Seneca explores the nature and causes of terrestrial waters, culminates in an account of a cosmic deluge that will ultimately devastate our world ( QNat.
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