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Apocolocyntosis, by Seneca
Apocolocyntosis, commonly translated The Pumpkinification of Claudius, is a Menippean satire attributed to Seneca, dealing with the consequences of a bumbling emperor's deification upon death.
Apocolocyntosis
Online English translation of the Apocolocyntosis attributed to Seneca.
BMCR: Joel C. Relihan, Ancient Menippean Satire
Steve Nimis reviews this book on Menippean satire (including Seneca's Apocolocyntosis), which "share a core of traits derived from an aesthetic of indecorous mixing of incongruous elements: verse and prose, high and low styles, serious and comic, the moral and the erotic, etc."
L. Annaei Senecae Apocolocyntosis Divi Clavdii
Latin text of the Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius, by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.