Echo of Seneca's Epistulae in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; GEOFFREY, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, ca. 1100-1154. Historia regum Britanniae

The article analyzes the significance of an unrecognized quotation from "Epistulae morales ad lucillium" by Lucius Annaeus Seneca to the prologue to the book "Historia regum Britanniae" by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It attributes the popularity of the prologue to claims by Geoffrey that archdeacon Walter of Oxford had given him an old British book. It mentions the phrase used by Seneca to introduce a direct quotation. Also noted is the literary talent of Geoffrey highlighted in the prologue.