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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Page 118
... offers the exiled poet an opportunity both to explain his motives , and to excuse the content of his verse . These questions are answered by counter - questions , e.g. interea nostri quid agant nisi triste libelli ? ( mean- time , how ...
... offers the exiled poet an opportunity both to explain his motives , and to excuse the content of his verse . These questions are answered by counter - questions , e.g. interea nostri quid agant nisi triste libelli ? ( mean- time , how ...
Page 175
... offers an excuse to offer covert criticism of their common persecutor . At the same time it is a public restatement of his position , whether for Augustus ' own consumption , or merely to reiterate the unreasonableness of the punish ...
... offers an excuse to offer covert criticism of their common persecutor . At the same time it is a public restatement of his position , whether for Augustus ' own consumption , or merely to reiterate the unreasonableness of the punish ...
Page 195
... offers no grapevines , no fruit trees , not even green leaves . The landscape is bare and sterile : non hic pampinea dulcis latet uva sub umbra , nec cumulant altos fervida musta lacus poma negat regio ... aspiceres nudos sine fronde ...
... offers no grapevines , no fruit trees , not even green leaves . The landscape is bare and sterile : non hic pampinea dulcis latet uva sub umbra , nec cumulant altos fervida musta lacus poma negat regio ... aspiceres nudos sine fronde ...
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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