ABSTRACT
The author in whose works the altered sensibilities of the post-Ovidian age are most clearly perceptible is without question the Younger Seneca. To a certain extent he wins this status by default. Ovid’s death in exile at Tomis in 18 A.D. marks the beginning of a decades-long lull in the Latin literary record. From the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius we possess, beyond a few of Seneca’s early works, only a few curiosities: Valerius Maximus’ Facta et Dicta Memorabilia (“Memorable Deeds and Sayings”), Phaedrus’ collection of fables, the incomplete histories of Velleius Paterculus.
