Note 694 — Chapter IV · SENECAN SATIRE AND POETRY: DRAMA OF THE AGE
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Birt, De Sen. Apoc. et Apoth. lucubratio, Marb., 1888, thinks Sen. wrote not only the existing political satire, but a lost philosophical Apocolocyntosis. Stahr, Agrippina, append., Berl., 1867, also refuses to identify the Apotheosis with the Apocolocyntosis, but further denies S.’s authorship of the extant skit. Hartman, Mnemos., N.S., xliv. (1916) holds that the pumpkinification was contained “in aliquo colloquio” distinct from the extant “Ludus.”