The protagonist of a work by this man is prevented from sweet-talking Hercules by the timely appearance of Our Lady of Malaria.
The protagonist of a work by this man is prevented from sweet-talking Hercules by the timely appearance of Our Lady of Malaria. In that work by this man, Clotho reveals the spindles of Augurinus, Baba, and the title character to Mercury, saying that she will cause them to die within a year. An earlier work of Euripides inspired a play by this man in which a horrified Amphitryon watches the slayer of Lycus go insane and kill his wife Megara and their children. His only surviving comic work is a (*) Menippean satire whose protagonist is sentenced to be a law clerk in the court of the underworld after the sudden appearance of Caligula, thus averting his previous fate, namely being cursed to attempt to throw dice with a bottomless cup for eternity. For 10 points, name this Stoic author of Hercules Furens and the Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii, the namesake of a genre of bloody revenge tragedy.
The protagonist of a work by this man is prevented from sweet-talking Hercules by the timely appearance of Our Lady of Malaria.
Lucius Annaeus {Seneca} the Younger