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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... choice of genre ) must still be ascribed to an author's intentional choice . Such a concession leaves the door open for a return to informed speculation about authorial intent , even while partially conceding to the post - modern ...
... choice of genre ) must still be ascribed to an author's intentional choice . Such a concession leaves the door open for a return to informed speculation about authorial intent , even while partially conceding to the post - modern ...
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... choice of the philosopher as mentor to her son . The rest of Seneca's career is not of concern here , although his retirement from court life after his fall from grace may be construed as a form of semi - voluntary exile . 2.2.8 The ...
... choice of the philosopher as mentor to her son . The rest of Seneca's career is not of concern here , although his retirement from court life after his fall from grace may be construed as a form of semi - voluntary exile . 2.2.8 The ...
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... choice of place , including islands traditionally associated with exile , such as Gyaros or Cinaros.46 With this comes the argument that happiness is to be attained by the sequestered life , 47 free from civic duties48 with time enough ...
... choice of place , including islands traditionally associated with exile , such as Gyaros or Cinaros.46 With this comes the argument that happiness is to be attained by the sequestered life , 47 free from civic duties48 with time enough ...
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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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addressed allusion Amor ancient appears argument aspects Atticus Augustan Augustus autobiographical banishment Boethius Caesar Chapter Cicero Claassen Clodius coloured comfort Consolatio Consolatio Philosophiae consolation consolatory tradition couplet creative death depiction dialogue Dio Cassius Dio's discussion Doblhofer 1987 elegiac elegy emotional emperor emphasis enemy epic epistolary erotic Euripides Ex Ponto exile's exiled poet exilic literature Favorinus focus Fortuna frequently Gallus genre Getae Getic grammatical persons Greek hero heroic Heroides Ibis imperial Innocenti Pierini intertextual invective involved letters literary Livia Medea mihi misery Muse myth mythical narrative offers ostensible outreach Ovid Ovidian passim pathos perhaps Philiscus philosophical Piso place of exile Plut Plutarch poem poet's poetic political Pont portrayal portrayed praeteritio prose protagonist psychological reader readership recusatio rhetorical Roman Rome Sarmatian Scythia second person Seneca shows Stoic Tiberius tion Tomis topoi topos Tristia verbs Vergil verse wife writing