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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... wife of an exile , offering a focus , both literal139 and figurative , for her exiled husband in his hopes of return . Ovid's Penelope differs in important respects from the exemplary Homeric paragon . She is a woman of feeling and ...
... wife of an exile , offering a focus , both literal139 and figurative , for her exiled husband in his hopes of return . Ovid's Penelope differs in important respects from the exemplary Homeric paragon . She is a woman of feeling and ...
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... wife , who stayed in Rome to safeguard his affairs . The poet's depiction of marital affection in the exilic works is variously coloured . The exile's affection for his wife offers a new affirmation of the value of love within a ...
... wife , who stayed in Rome to safeguard his affairs . The poet's depiction of marital affection in the exilic works is variously coloured . The exile's affection for his wife offers a new affirmation of the value of love within a ...
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... wife's attachment to the exile , which appears to grow . At Tristia 5.2.37-40 she is accused of ' also ' deserting ... wife still does not appear to know ' what she should be doing ' . He then spells out how to approach the emperor's ...
... wife's attachment to the exile , which appears to grow . At Tristia 5.2.37-40 she is accused of ' also ' deserting ... wife still does not appear to know ' what she should be doing ' . He then spells out how to approach the emperor's ...
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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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