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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Page 107
... misery , but very little factual detail . Cicero concentrates on means to reach Atticus himself , hoping for his friend's continued support and real aid . He upbraids his friend for having kept him from suicide , a consideration which ...
... misery , but very little factual detail . Cicero concentrates on means to reach Atticus himself , hoping for his friend's continued support and real aid . He upbraids his friend for having kept him from suicide , a consideration which ...
Page 108
... misery . Cicero's informal correspondence reflects his physical and mental debilitation in exile and offers a paradigm for the articulation of the day - to - day emotional vicissitudes of exile , displaying those psychological aspects ...
... misery . Cicero's informal correspondence reflects his physical and mental debilitation in exile and offers a paradigm for the articulation of the day - to - day emotional vicissitudes of exile , displaying those psychological aspects ...
Page 184
... misery 10 The focus is on the author : important verbs are in the first person , possessive adjectives meus and noster abound : the exile is wrapped in a self - imposed cocoon of misery . " Plans for safeguarding himself are couched in ...
... misery 10 The focus is on the author : important verbs are in the first person , possessive adjectives meus and noster abound : the exile is wrapped in a self - imposed cocoon of misery . " Plans for safeguarding himself are couched in ...
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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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addressed allusion Amor ancient appears argument aspects Atticus Augustan Augustus autobiographical banishment Boethius Caesar Chapter Cicero Claassen Clodius coloured comfort Consolatio Consolatio Philosophiae consolation consolatory tradition couplet creative death depiction dialogue Dio Cassius Dio's discussion Doblhofer 1987 elegiac elegy emotional emperor emphasis enemy epic epistolary erotic Euripides Ex Ponto exile's exiled poet exilic literature Favorinus focus Fortuna frequently Gallus genre Getae Getic grammatical persons Greek hero heroic Heroides Ibis imperial Innocenti Pierini intertextual invective involved letters literary Livia Medea mihi misery Muse myth mythical narrative offers ostensible outreach Ovid Ovidian passim pathos perhaps Philiscus philosophical Piso place of exile Plut Plutarch poem poet's poetic political Pont portrayal portrayed praeteritio prose protagonist psychological reader readership recusatio rhetorical Roman Rome Sarmatian Scythia second person Seneca shows Stoic Tiberius tion Tomis topoi topos Tristia verbs Vergil verse wife writing