This man wrote an original Greek-style tragedy which opens as the ghost of Tantalus speaks to a Fury and involves the title member of the house of Atreus eating his children. He also wrote a satire in which Heracles defends a stuttering man in a trial before the gods, though that emperor is sentenced to play dice forever with a bottomless cup. This author of Thyestes and The Pumpkinification of Claudius killed himself in the same year as Petronius and Lucan, after his student accused him of a role in the Pisonian conspiracy against the emperor's life. For 10 points, na
This man wrote an original Greek-style tragedy which opens as the ghost of Tantalus speaks to a Fury and involves the title member of the house of Atreus eating his children. He also wrote a satire in which Heracles defends a stuttering man in a trial before the gods, though that emperor is sentenced to play dice forever with a bottomless cup. This author of Thyestes and The Pumpkinification of Claudius killed himself in the same year as Petronius and Lucan, after his student accused him of a role in the Pisonian conspiracy against the emperor's life. For 10 points, name this Stoic philosopher who served as tutor and literary advisor to the emperor Nero.
This man wrote an original Greek-style tragedy which opens as the ghost of Tantalus speaks to a Fury and involves the title member of the house of Atreus eating his children.