Displaced Persons: The Literature of Exile from Cicero to BoethiusExile is a political act, involving loss of power. Five authors, all exiled from Rome, are examined in this book, which analyses the literature of exile and takes its consideration through to the virtual end of the Classical era: the author examines the various means of literary sublimation that individual exiles - Cicero, Ovid, Seneca the Younger, Dio Chrysostom and Anicius Manlius Boethius - found for the feeling of social and political isolation that they experienced. |
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... Vergil's third person narrative with emphasis on the last action that could be ascribed to Dido - a retreat into death as the ultimate exile . Paradoxically , in the Underworld Dido is reunited with her husband and it is Aeneas who is ...
... Vergil's third person narrative with emphasis on the last action that could be ascribed to Dido - a retreat into death as the ultimate exile . Paradoxically , in the Underworld Dido is reunited with her husband and it is Aeneas who is ...
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... Vergil , but in a totally different manner and with a totally different thrust . Intertextual allusion acknowledges ... Vergil's own version of the story from Georgics 4.453-527 . After first having given due place to the usual mourning ...
... Vergil , but in a totally different manner and with a totally different thrust . Intertextual allusion acknowledges ... Vergil's own version of the story from Georgics 4.453-527 . After first having given due place to the usual mourning ...
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... Vergil , whose Scythia ( Geor . 3.349- 83 ) draws the Danube ' with its golden sands ' northwards past Lake Maeotis ( the Sea of Azov ) . Ovid draws Vergil's snowbound Scythia south and west into the realm of Moesian reality , but his ...
... Vergil , whose Scythia ( Geor . 3.349- 83 ) draws the Danube ' with its golden sands ' northwards past Lake Maeotis ( the Sea of Azov ) . Ovid draws Vergil's snowbound Scythia south and west into the realm of Moesian reality , but his ...
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Displaced Persons: The Literature of Exile from Cicero to Boethius Jo-Marie Claassen No preview available - 1999 |
Displaced Persons: The Literature of Exile from Cicero to Boethius Jo-Marie Claassen No preview available - 1999 |
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