What is "apocolocyntosis"

The Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, literally ''The Gourdification of (the Divine) Claudius'', is a political satire on the Roman emperor Claudius, probably written by Seneca the Younger. It is one of only two examples of Menippean satire from the classical era that have survived, the other being Petronius' Satyricon. The title plays upon " apotheosis", the process by which dead Roman emperors were recognized as gods.