- The
Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii,
literally The
Pumpkinification of (the Divine) Claudius, is a
satire on the
Roman emperor Claudius, which, according...
- the
apotheosis of
inept and
feeble emperors, as in the
satire The
Pumpkinification of (the Divine) Claudius,
usually attributed to Seneca.
Numerous mortals...
- m****
manum lavat one hand
washes the
other famous quote from The
Pumpkinification of Claudius,
ascribed to
Seneca the Younger. It
implies that one situation...
-
converts to
Stoicism solely to
appease Claudius's own ideology. The "
Pumpkinification" (Apocolocyntosis) to
Graves thus
becomes an
unbearable work of flattery...
- at an
enormous price. He is
mentioned in the satire, by Seneca, The
Pumpkinification of Claudius,
where he is
listed among the many
people killed by that...
-
Another example from
classical times appeared in
Apocolocyntosis or The
Pumpkinification of Claudius, a
satire attributed to
Seneca on the late
Roman emperor:...
- m****
manum lavat one hand
washes the
other famous quote from The
Pumpkinification of Claudius,
ascribed to
Seneca the Younger. It
implies that one situation...
-
genre continued with
Seneca the Younger,
whose Apocolocyntosis, or "
Pumpkinification", is the only near-complete
classical Menippean satire to survive....
- fish at an
enormous price. He is
mentioned in Seneca's
satire The
Pumpkinification of Claudius,
where he is
listed among the many
people killed by that...
-
agreement between philosophers sooner than
between clocks. — Seneca, The
Pumpkinification of
Claudius Zenobius's
collection of
proverbial expressions includes...
