Question
Upon encountering this figure in a satire, Hercules is said to have noted their “incomprehensible voice that… seemed more appropriate to a sea-monster” and thought that “his thirteenth labor had arrived.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this emperor, who is abruptly claimed as a slave by his predecessor and sent to work as a legal secretary at the end of a Seneca the Younger satire describing his Apocolocyntosis, or “Pumpkinification.”
ANSWER: Emperor Claudius [or Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; accept The Pumpkinification of Claudius, The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius, or Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii]
[10m] In this work, Seneca asks, "how can you scorn [death] in the midst of a mushroom supper?" in an allusion to Claudius' murder. This work consists of 124 letters Seneca wrote to his friend Lucilius.
ANSWER: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [or Moral Epistles to Lucilius, or Moral Letters to Lucilius]
[10h] Seneca had earlier heaped flattery on Claudius in a Consolation addressed to this person, a secretary of Claudius. Unlike in his Consolations to Marcia and Helvia, Seneca does not advise this person to pursue apatheia.
ANSWER: Gaius Julius Polybius
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