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Writing Exile : The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond.
Title:
Writing Exile : The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond.
Author:
Gaertner, Jan Felix.
ISBN:
9789047418948
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (310 pages)
Series:
Mnemosyne, Supplements ; v.No. 283

Mnemosyne, Supplements
Contents:
Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Chapter 1. The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity --- Jan Felix Gaertner -- Chapter 2. Early Expatriates: Displacement and Exile in Archaic Poetry --- Ewen L. Bowie -- Chapter 3. Exile: the Making of the Greek Historian --- John Dillery -- Chapter 4. Exile on Main Street: Citizen Diogenes --- Robert Bracht Branham -- Chapter 5. Later Greek Voices on the Predicament of Exile: from Teles to Plutarch and Favorinus --- Heinz-Günther Nesselrath -- Chapter 6. Cicero's Roman Exile --- Sarah T. Cohen -- Chapter 7. Exile in Latin Epic --- Stephen J. Harrison -- Chapter 8. Ovid and the 'Poetics of Exile': How Exilic is Ovid's Exile Poetry --- Jan Felix Gaertner -- Chapter 9. Dialogues of Displacement: Seneca's Consolations to Helvia and Polybius --- Elaine Fantham -- Chapter 10. Dio's Exile: Politics, Philosophy, Literature --- Paolo Desideri -- Chapter 11. Ovid and the Medieval Exilic Imaginary --- Ralph J. Hexter -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Greek -- Index of Latin -- Index Locorum.
Abstract:
The volume explores how Greek and Latin authors perceive and present their own (real or metaphorical) exile and employ exile as a powerful trope to express estrangement, elicit readerly sympathy, and question political power structures.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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