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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
360
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780299166441