Britannia

Reading notes

• The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §8 Britain

  Island partly conquered under Claudius in AD 43; he was worshipped there in a temple, the 'barbarian' cult the satire mocks.

• Consolation to Marcia §14 Britain

  Britannia, the island beyond the ocean reached by Caesar's expeditions of 55–54 BC.

• Consolation to Polybius §13 Britain

  Britannia; Claudius's invasion of AD 43 had just opened the island to Rome, the achievement Seneca flatters here.

• Octavia §1 Britons

  Britain, conquered under Claudius (AD 43); the conquest is recalled as the height of his reign.