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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... style.22 The Alexandrian topical division ignored metre and reverted to the Aristotelian ' object ' in a wider sense , concentrating on the circumstance in which the protagonist is presented . Here the purpose of the poet in composing a ...
... style.22 The Alexandrian topical division ignored metre and reverted to the Aristotelian ' object ' in a wider sense , concentrating on the circumstance in which the protagonist is presented . Here the purpose of the poet in composing a ...
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... style Ovid did not keep even to the larger generic distinction of epic and elegiac , but purposely fused them.116 Generic innovation is a feature of Roman literature . Ovid's Amores ( Love Poems ) exhibit a development from earlier ...
... style Ovid did not keep even to the larger generic distinction of epic and elegiac , but purposely fused them.116 Generic innovation is a feature of Roman literature . Ovid's Amores ( Love Poems ) exhibit a development from earlier ...
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... style . With the hindsight of two thousand years we are in the position of a privileged reader with regard to our knowledge of the efficacy of the exile's pleas ( they were not efficacious ) , but in the end we are baffled by the ...
... style . With the hindsight of two thousand years we are in the position of a privileged reader with regard to our knowledge of the efficacy of the exile's pleas ( they were not efficacious ) , but in the end we are baffled by 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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