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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... hope for such . Throughout the eight to ten years of Ovid's exile the town of Tomis is depicted as being in a perpetual state of siege . The five books of Tristia and four of Epistolae ex Ponto combine to lift the exile to an heroic ...
... hope for such . Throughout the eight to ten years of Ovid's exile the town of Tomis is depicted as being in a perpetual state of siege . The five books of Tristia and four of Epistolae ex Ponto combine to lift the exile to an heroic ...
Page 84
... hope [ of that ] , then what sort of a life have I got ?, 6a ) . He ignores consolatory topoi such as ' world - citizenship ' and man's adaptability through self - sufficiency . A severely practical discussion of the place of exile ...
... hope [ of that ] , then what sort of a life have I got ?, 6a ) . He ignores consolatory topoi such as ' world - citizenship ' and man's adaptability through self - sufficiency . A severely practical discussion of the place of exile ...
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... hope that Atticus may in some way achieve Cicero's restitution to some sort of social and political power . He laments : qui fui , et qui esse potui , iam esse non possum ( What I was and what I could have become I now no longer can be ...
... hope that Atticus may in some way achieve Cicero's restitution to some sort of social and political power . He laments : qui fui , et qui esse potui , iam esse non possum ( What I was and what I could have become I now no longer can be ...
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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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