Abstract
This research aims at considering the image of Lucilius Iunior, the recipient of the first book of the Epistulae Morales by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE - 65 CE). The importance of the recipient for the epistolary genre is highlighted by Seneca himself, when, for example, he states that letters "bring true vestiges of the absent friend" (vera amici absentis vestigia, Ep. 40,1; Santos 1999…