Apocolocyntosis

Apocolocyntosis (Pumpkinification of Claudius)

Author

Seneca

Language

Classical Latin

Year

c. 54

Country

Ancient Rome

Genre

Novella / Light Novel

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The Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, literally Pumpkinification/Gourdification of (the Divine) Claudius, is a satire on the Roman emperor Claudius, which, according to Cassius Dio, was written by Seneca the Younger. A partly extant Menippean satire, an anonymous work called Ludus de morte Divi Claudii in its surviving manuscripts, may or may not be identical to the text mentioned by Cassius Dio. "Apocolocyntosis" is a word play on "apotheosis", the process by which dead Roman emperors were recognized as gods.