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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... verse . It never was anything else . That is the joke of all verse narrative , delicately pointed in this case , by the reportage , also in verse , of his father's condem- nation of such activity : Saepe pater dixit ' studium quid ...
... verse . It never was anything else . That is the joke of all verse narrative , delicately pointed in this case , by the reportage , also in verse , of his father's condem- nation of such activity : Saepe pater dixit ' studium quid ...
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... verse sections . By subtle distancing the creative poet can both show his protagonist being weaned from a lower form ' of literature and enjoy the solace that poetic creativity still brings him . Only in the first book his verses ...
... verse sections . By subtle distancing the creative poet can both show his protagonist being weaned from a lower form ' of literature and enjoy the solace that poetic creativity still brings him . Only in the first book his verses ...
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... verse 1 is echoed in the positive felicem ( desired ) of verse 21 , adversely influencing the tone of the verse . Both words fill the second foot and emphatic first half of the third foot in their respective verses . Fallacem is ...
... verse 1 is echoed in the positive felicem ( desired ) of verse 21 , adversely influencing the tone of the verse . Both words fill the second foot and emphatic first half of the third foot in their respective verses . Fallacem is ...
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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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