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The Man, The Myth, The Pumpkin

The Man, The Myth, The Pumpkin

By: Sophia Sarro
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 The Roman emperor Claudius has had various depictions throughout time. Come along as we examine some of these depictions to see what they say about the cultures that created them.Sophia Sarro 2022 Art Literary History & Criticism
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  • His End, Our Beginning

    His End, Our Beginning
    Dec 2 2022

    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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    17 mins
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