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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... writing to the exiled Trebianus in September 46 ( Fam . 6.10.4 ) , gives a clear analysis of what is required of a letter to an exile : it may contain a promise of aid , offer advice , or give comfort . The tradition of consolation for ...
... writing to the exiled Trebianus in September 46 ( Fam . 6.10.4 ) , gives a clear analysis of what is required of a letter to an exile : it may contain a promise of aid , offer advice , or give comfort . The tradition of consolation for ...
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... writer . Letter - writing , then , is a form of conversation at one remove . This remove involves both space and time . The most important factor is the consciousness , with both author and recipient , that communication of a reciprocal ...
... writer . Letter - writing , then , is a form of conversation at one remove . This remove involves both space and time . The most important factor is the consciousness , with both author and recipient , that communication of a reciprocal ...
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... writing ' heroine knows only her past story , the creative poet of the Heroides can assume omniscience , and can also assume a privileged knowledge in his general readership , of the outcome of the myth . Narrative details can be ...
... writing ' heroine knows only her past story , the creative poet of the Heroides can assume omniscience , and can also assume a privileged knowledge in his general readership , of the outcome of the myth . Narrative details can be ...
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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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