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  • His End, Our Beginning

    His End, Our Beginning
    2022/12/02

    The princeps is dead, long live the princeps.

    The year is 54 C.E. The emperor Claudius has just died, and a new Claudius has come to take his place - a fictional Claudius straight from the pages of Seneca the Younger's Apocolocyntosis Divi Claudii, whose boundless cruelty is rivalled only by his own mind-numbing obliviousness.

    What is Seneca trying to achieve? How does this reflect on Nero? And most bafflingly of all, what's with all the gourds?
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