Ancient Roman Literature - Literary Criticism, Medieval Philosophy - General & Miscellaneous, Roman Philosophy, Rhetoric, Ancient Roman Poetry - Literary Criticism
Displaced Persons
Claassen
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Overview
Exile is a political act, involving loss of power. Five authors, all exiled from Rome, are examined in this study of the literary depiction of exile: Cicero, Ovid, Seneca the Younger, Dio Chrysostomus and Anicius Manlius Boethius. Although separated from the first four by several centuries, Boethius has an intellectual, circumstantial and spiritual affinity with them. Jo-Marie Claassen examines the various means of literary sublimation that individual exiles found for the feeling of social and political isolation that they experienced.Book Details
Published
September 1, 1999
Publisher
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999.
Pages
352
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780299166403