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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... exile , but a secondary figure looms over all the exile's utterances - the person who exiled him . Only Tristia 2 is overtly addressed to Augustus , but its focus is reciprocally on the exiled poet , his former innocence and his present ...
... exile , but a secondary figure looms over all the exile's utterances - the person who exiled him . Only Tristia 2 is overtly addressed to Augustus , but its focus is reciprocally on the exiled poet , his former innocence and his present ...
Page 103
... exile : the exile's first instinct is to exculpate himself , and that is potentially dangerous . Caecina is conscious of having sinned no more ( and probably even less ) than many others . Self - exculpation is , however , tantamount to ...
... exile : the exile's first instinct is to exculpate himself , and that is potentially dangerous . Caecina is conscious of having sinned no more ( and probably even less ) than many others . Self - exculpation is , however , tantamount to ...
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... exile has the protagonist as its main concern . The exile's reaction to the external aspects of exile and his presentation of self within the place of exile could be expected to form part of the solipsistic focus of his writings ...
... exile has the protagonist as its main concern . The exile's reaction to the external aspects of exile and his presentation of self within the place of exile could be expected to form part of the solipsistic focus of his writings ...
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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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