In this paper on Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana [The Araucana], I provide an intertextual reading, in the Renaissance manner, of one of the epic's main heroes, Caupolican, throwing light on the consistency of his characterization as a Stoic hero and wise man at the very moment in which he confronts his harboric death I show how Ercilla brings to bear L A Seneca's moral essays and Stoic notions directly on the construction of the draucaman hero's character Until the publication of this essay, the decisive influence of the Roman Imperial philosopher on the Finis Terrae stoicism of Alonso de Ercilla had not been rigorously described and interpreted.