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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... Medea's destruction of her own children is an extreme example , but may still be seen as typical of emotional reaction to exile . Awareness of betrayal and loss accompanied an historical Cicero into exile no less than it moved his ...
... Medea's destruction of her own children is an extreme example , but may still be seen as typical of emotional reaction to exile . Awareness of betrayal and loss accompanied an historical Cicero into exile no less than it moved his ...
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... Medea , who had similarly averted her gaze when Jason hacked at Absyrtus . Medea's escape from the sisters ' wrath offers the poet the opportunity to relate in an equally long passage ( 350-403 ) a second magic flight over the mountain ...
... Medea , who had similarly averted her gaze when Jason hacked at Absyrtus . Medea's escape from the sisters ' wrath offers the poet the opportunity to relate in an equally long passage ( 350-403 ) a second magic flight over the mountain ...
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... Medea's horrific mutilation of her small brother's body and Apollonius ' stress on the guilt she shares with Jason for the murder of an adult Absyrtus . Once in Corinth , Medea is presented as powerful in her control over her magic ...
... Medea's horrific mutilation of her small brother's body and Apollonius ' stress on the guilt she shares with Jason for the murder of an adult Absyrtus . Once in Corinth , Medea is presented as powerful in her control over her magic ...
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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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