Satiric plotting in Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.1983.v51.i1.734Abstract
This paper studies Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis as Menippean satire. Seneca utilizes playfulness, New Year’s celebration, swiftness of pace, and in particular anticlimactic repetition to make very serious fun of an Emperor who had been a cruel absolutist and murderous judge.
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