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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... political allegiance between the most powerful in the state and the person being exiled . Very often such exiles are the helpless victims of extraneous circumstances such as protracted war , but some- times the exiles are themselves ...
... political allegiance between the most powerful in the state and the person being exiled . Very often such exiles are the helpless victims of extraneous circumstances such as protracted war , but some- times the exiles are themselves ...
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... political message : the Augustan peace cannot guarantee the safety of all nations . Continuing dispossession of both the formerly powerful and the perma- nently powerless is shown as grim reality . It is typical of the sensibility of ...
... political message : the Augustan peace cannot guarantee the safety of all nations . Continuing dispossession of both the formerly powerful and the perma- nently powerless is shown as grim reality . It is typical of the sensibility of ...
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... political tide in their favour . Similarly , Cicero's correspondent T. Pom- ponius Atticus was a voluntary exile , but for intellectual rather than political reasons.67 Exile by no means always diminished politicians ' power . The ...
... political tide in their favour . Similarly , Cicero's correspondent T. Pom- ponius Atticus was a voluntary exile , but for intellectual rather than political reasons.67 Exile by no means always diminished politicians ' power . The ...
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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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