Displaced persons : the literature of exile from Cicero to Boethius

Author(s)

• Claassen, Jo-Marie

Bibliographic Information

Displaced persons : the literature of exile from Cicero to Boethius

Jo-Marie Claassen

Bristol Classical Press, [20--?]

Note

Reprint. Originally published: London : Duckworth, 1999

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Exile 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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• NCID: BB16846405
• ISBN:
  • 9780715629192
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [London?]
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 352 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Exiles' writings, Latin -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Boethius, d. 524 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Latin literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Exiles -- Rome -- History
  • LCSH : Narration (Rhetoric)
  • LCSH : Rhetoric, Ancient