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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... bring relief ; the exile must undertake literary studies as a means of curing grief ; time brings change ; the addressee must work for his own relief by a conscious moral effort ; a consciousness of innocence and rectitude brings inner ...
... bring relief ; the exile must undertake literary studies as a means of curing grief ; time brings change ; the addressee must work for his own relief by a conscious moral effort ; a consciousness of innocence and rectitude brings inner ...
Page 144
... bring about the ruin of his enemy through his song . The pattern of imprecation is illogical.41 Ovid's Ibis is gloriously incon- sistent . Emasculation is wished upon the enemy twice over ( vv . 273-4 , 453-6 ) , alternating with the ...
... bring about the ruin of his enemy through his song . The pattern of imprecation is illogical.41 Ovid's Ibis is gloriously incon- sistent . Emasculation is wished upon the enemy twice over ( vv . 273-4 , 453-6 ) , alternating with the ...
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... bring with it a conceptual background of considerable complexity . In his exilic poetry the topoi of exile are ... bringing the conceptual framework of an earlier work to bear as a counterpoint to the framework of a new poem , which ...
... bring with it a conceptual background of considerable complexity . In his exilic poetry the topoi of exile are ... bringing the conceptual framework of an earlier work to bear as a counterpoint to the framework of a new poem , which ...
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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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