摘要：The article examines the three references to Asinius Pollio in Seneca the Elder’s
sixth Suasoria. It reads them as an authorial meta-reflexion about the interplay between
cultural memory and literary or rhetorical emulation. While attempting to canonise Cicero
as a cultural and political icon, Seneca invites his readers to participate in this canonisation
by imitating both Cicero’s own works and earlier declaimers and historians who have
written about him. Asinius Pollio is a key figure for this programme in the Suasoria, in that
he does not participate in this game and therefore acts as a negative exemplar for Seneca’s
readers.
关键词：Seneca the Elder; Cicero; Asinius Pollio; memory; intertextuality; canonisation
