Displaced Persons. The Literature of Exile from Cicero to Boethius

Auteur: Claassen, Jo-Marie
Titre: Displaced Persons. The Literature of Exile from Cicero to Boethius
Revue/Collection: Winsconsin studies in classics
Éditeur: Duckworth
Annèe edition: 1999
Pages: 352
Mots-clès: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Commentaires - Commenti - Commentaries, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Comptes rendus:

Jurado, Melina A., « Argos », 25, 2001, pp. 151-154

Description: [Abstract] 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.
Oeuvres:

• Epistulae ad Atticum
• Epistulae ad familiares

Sigle auteur: Claassen 1999