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It has long been recognized that the speech given to Cremutius Cordus in the final pages of Seneca’s Consolatio ad Marciam alludes to eschatological texts such as Plato’s Phaedo and Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis. But a significant additional model is Ovid's “eulogy to astronomers” in book 1 of Fasti, a work seldom mentioned in traditional accounts of Seneca’s reception of Ovid. What are the implications for Seneca’s literary project?