CLAS 151gp Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Mytheme, Rela, Antiope (Amazon)
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Black farce - so violent it"s funny o. Born lucius annaeus seneca in cordova, spain 4 bc - 65 ce o. Born into a stoic pythagorean tradiion - ruled by fate, math, souls are metempsychose o o. Metempsychose: souls can go into animals, idea of reincarnaion. Was a vegetarian unil his dad called him a sissy. Atracted caligula"s atenion, exiled to corsica during claudius" rule in 41 ce by messalina, charged with adultery with caligula"s sister julia livilla. Recalled by agrippina to tutor nero in 50 ce. Seneca and burrus (captain of the praetorian guard) take over nero"s principate (54 ce) The good 5 years: quinquiennium neronis - only under seneca and burrus o. Agrippina is murdered at the end of the 5 years. Seneca half reires in 62 ce, implicated in pisonian conspiracy in 65 ce, forced to commit suicide. Apotheosis - becoming a god, but apocolocyntosi - becoming a pumpkin.
