Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii
- Idioma:
- anglès
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- Obra completa
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- Escrita per l'autor
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- ~5.470 paraules · 26 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APALuci Anneu Sèneca. (n.d.). Apocolocyntosis [Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/seneca/apocolocyntosis
- MLALuci Anneu Sèneca. Apocolocyntosis [Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/seneca/apocolocyntosis.
- ChicagoLuci Anneu Sèneca. Apocolocyntosis [Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/seneca/apocolocyntosis.
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De què tracta
Sàtira de la mort i divinització de l'emperador Claudi: en comptes de convertir-se en déu, el fan carabassa. Barreja prosa i vers i és cruel de dalt a baix.
Context i història
L'única sàtira menipea llatina conservada gairebé sencera, i el contrapunt exacte de la «Consolació a Polibi», on el mateix autor havia adulat el mateix emperador. Tenir les dues obres al costat diu més sobre Sèneca i sobre la cort de Neró que qualsevol biografia.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
This said, she twists the thread around his ugly spindle once, 4 Snaps off the last bit of the life of that Imperial dunce. But Lachesis, her hair adorned, her tresses neatly bound, Pierian laurel on her locks, her brows with garlands crowned, Plucks me from out the snowy wool new threads as white as snow, Which handled with a happy touch change colour as they go, Not common wool, but golden wire; the Sisters wondering gaze, As age by age the pretty thread runs down the golden days. World without end they spin away, the happy fleeces pull; What joy they take to fill their hands with that delightful wool! Indeed, the task performs itself: no toil the spinners know: Down drops the soft and silken thread as round the spindles go; Fewer than these are Tithon's years, not Nestor's life so long. Phoebus is present: glad he is to sing a merry song; Now helps the work, now full of hope upon the harp doth play; The Sisters listen to the song that charms their toil away. They praise their brother's melodies, and still the spindles run, Till more than man's allotted span the busy hands have spun. Then Phoebus says, "O sister Fates! I pray take none away, But suffer this one life to be longer than mortal day. Like me in face and lovely grace, like me in voice and song, He'll bid the laws at length speak out that have been dumb so long, Will give unto the weary world years prosperous and bright. Like as the daystar from on high scatters the stars of night, As, when the stars return again, clear Hesper brings his light, Or as the ruddy dawn drives out the dark, and brings the day, As the bright sun looks on the world, and speeds along its way His rising car from morning's gates: so Caesar doth arise, So Nero shows his face to Rome before the people's eyes, His bright and…