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 155
... true of poetical autobiography , and of attempts to justify the protagonist in the eyes of his opponents . We have seen that , in the case of both Cicero and Ovid , ostensible efforts at outreach to or even attack on a second person ...
... true of poetical autobiography , and of attempts to justify the protagonist in the eyes of his opponents . We have seen that , in the case of both Cicero and Ovid , ostensible efforts at outreach to or even attack on a second person ...
Page 164
... true philosopher ' . Allusions to his exile in certain other orations can be consulted to fill in the outline . There is little reason to doubt the fact of the exile's wanderings , yet this is by no means straight autobiographical ...
... true philosopher ' . Allusions to his exile in certain other orations can be consulted to fill in the outline . There is little reason to doubt the fact of the exile's wanderings , yet this is by no means straight autobiographical ...
Page 169
... true philosophical dialogue . The interlocutor draws from the protagonist first information and then af- firmations of the truths that she sets forth . By the third book only the prisoner has regained enough philosophic momentum to ...
... true philosophical dialogue . The interlocutor draws from the protagonist first information and then af- firmations of the truths that she sets forth . By the third book only the prisoner has regained enough philosophic momentum to ...
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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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