Apocolocyntosis (The Pumpkinification of Claudius)
Apocolocyntosis (The Pumpkinification of Claudius)
A savage prose-and-verse satire on the dead emperor Claudius's official deification, written almost immediately after his death, mocks the very ceremony Seneca had likely helped script for Claudius's successor Nero.
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