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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... kind of hardship addressed in the literature of exile , especially in autobiography . These differences were recognised by Roman law , where no injunction against the exiling of its citizens was in existence , and where no neighbour ...
... kind of hardship addressed in the literature of exile , especially in autobiography . These differences were recognised by Roman law , where no injunction against the exiling of its citizens was in existence , and where no neighbour ...
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... kind of ' positivism ' that seeks to read an author's known outer circumstances into a text64 and in her turn warns against the opposite kind : absolute belief in the ' truth ' of circumstances portrayed in a literary effusion . Abel ...
... kind of ' positivism ' that seeks to read an author's known outer circumstances into a text64 and in her turn warns against the opposite kind : absolute belief in the ' truth ' of circumstances portrayed in a literary effusion . Abel ...
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... kind Fate ' , and then as the equivalent of ' death ' . Two recognisably Ovidian echoes complete the fifth verse post fata ( after your death ) and superstes ( relic ) . It would appear to be poetic justice of a unique kind that the ...
... kind Fate ' , and then as the equivalent of ' death ' . Two recognisably Ovidian echoes complete the fifth verse post fata ( after your death ) and superstes ( relic ) . It would appear to be poetic justice of a unique kind that 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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