Satire · AD 54

Apocolocyntosis

The Pumpkinification of Claudius

Translated by W. H. D. Rouse (1902)

Seneca’s mock-deification of the dead emperor Claudius, a satire in prose and verse. Claudius labours to breathe his last, arrives at the gates of heaven stammering and lame, is argued over by the gods, and is at last condemned and sent below, to rattle dice for ever in a box with no bottom.

Contents · 14 parts

Chapter 11 paragraph
Chapter 210 lines
Chapters 3–437 paragraphs
Chapter 53 paragraphs
Chapter 61 paragraph
Chapter 719 paragraphs
Chapter 81 paragraph
Chapter 93 paragraphs
Chapter 101 paragraph
Chapter 114 paragraphs
Chapter 1229 lines
Chapter 131 paragraph
Chapter 143 paragraphs
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