Title: Displaced persons
First published: 1999
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."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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.
Subjects: Ancient Rhetoric, Criticism and interpretation, Exiles, Exiles' writings, Latin, History, History and criticism, Latin literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Rhetoric, Ancient, Rome, Exiles in literature, Exile (Punishment) in literature
Places: Rome
People: Boethius (d. 524), Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D), Marcus Tullius Cicero, Ovid (43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D)
Time periods: To 1500
LC classification: PA6018.E95 C58 1999