Crossword-Solution: APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
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| Senecan political satire | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APOCOLOCYNTOSIS (2)
But the work is modelled on the Menippean satires of Varro, and belongs to the same class of writing as the _Apocolocyntosis_ of Seneca.
Such an one, dying, may therefore properly say, with Empedocles, 'Farewell! a god immortal now am I.'" The expiring Vespasian exclaimed, "I shall soon be a god."8 Mure says that the doctrine of apotheosis belonged to the Graco Pelasgic race through all their history.9 Seneca severely satirizes the ceremony, and the popular belief which upheld it, in an elaborate lampoon called Apocolocyntosis, or the reception of Claudius among the pumpkins.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).