Helvia is the Latin feminine of Helvius. **Helvia (1st c. CE)** was the Hispanian Roman noblewoman — **mother of the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger**. From his Corsican exile, Seneca wrote her Consolatio ad Helviam matrem, one of the most touching mother-son letters of antiquity.
Featured in Seneca's collected works.
Helvia reduces to nine — the number of Stoic mother.