Rome

Reading notes

• The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §3 Rome

  The imperial capital, here the people who will behold the radiant new Caesar.

• Consolation to Marcia §3 the city

  Rome, to which Drusus's funeral was led in a procession resembling a triumph.

• Consolation to Polybius §14 city of Rome

  Rome, the city Scipio Aemilianus was 'born' to serve, ensuring it should never lack a Scipio nor Carthage survive.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §5.50.3 Rome

  The capital of the empire; here named as the standing excuse for ambition and extravagance, faults Seneca insists are the man's own, not the city's.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §14.91.13 Rome

  The capital, whose own fires Timagenes professed to welcome, certain that better buildings would replace them.

• Natural Questions §4.pr.21 Rome

  The Roman state, contesting Sicily with Carthage and then itself in civil war.

• Octavia §279 Rome

  The city and its people, here the chorus of Romans loyal to Octavia.