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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... tell an interesting tale . We may read more of Cicero as the writer than of the recipient in the first of the series , four letters to the Pompeian Aulus Manlius Torquatus , dating from January 45 ( Fam . 6.1 , 6.3 , 6.4 , 6.2 , in that ...
... tell an interesting tale . We may read more of Cicero as the writer than of the recipient in the first of the series , four letters to the Pompeian Aulus Manlius Torquatus , dating from January 45 ( Fam . 6.1 , 6.3 , 6.4 , 6.2 , in that ...
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... tell about me in six hundred years ' time ? For I fear that more than the petty tales of people now still alive , Att . 2.5.1 ) . Cicero's regard for the judgement , not only of history , but also of his contemporaries , gains in ...
... tell about me in six hundred years ' time ? For I fear that more than the petty tales of people now still alive , Att . 2.5.1 ) . Cicero's regard for the judgement , not only of history , but also of his contemporaries , gains in ...
Page 184
... tell me , and stop either telling me off or comforting me with consolatory commonplaces , Att . 3.15.7 ) . We have noted ( Chapter 4 ) that Cicero's formal letters to his immediate family ( Fam . 14.4 ) and to Atticus ( Att . 3.7 ) ...
... tell me , and stop either telling me off or comforting me with consolatory commonplaces , Att . 3.15.7 ) . We have noted ( Chapter 4 ) that Cicero's formal letters to his immediate family ( Fam . 14.4 ) and to Atticus ( Att . 3.7 ) ...
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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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