Writing exile : the discourse of displacement in Greco-Roman antiquity and beyond / edited by Jan Felix Gaertner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaertner, Jan Felix, 1976-

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 283.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava ; v. 83 [i.e. 283]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Exiles' writings--History and criticism.

Exiles' writings.

Exile (Punishment) in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 294 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Summary:

Exile and Displacement are Central topics in classical literature. Previous research has been mostly biographical and has focused on the three most prominent exiles: Cicero, Ovid, and Seneca. By shifting focus to a discourse of exile and displacement in early Greek poetry, Greek historiography, Cynicism, consolatory literature, Latin epic, Greek literature of the empire, and Medieval Latin literature, the present volume questions the notion of a distinct, psychologically conditioned 'genre' or 'mode' of exile literature. It shows how ancient and medieval authors perceive and present their exile according to pre-existent literary paradigms, style themselves or others as 'typical' exiles, and employ 'exile' as a powerful trope to express estrangement, elicit readerly sympathy, and question political power structures.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity / Jan Felix Gaertner 1

Chapter 2 Early Expatriates: Displacement and Exile in Archaic Poetry / Ewen L. Bowie 21

Chapter 3 Exile: the Making of the Greek Historian / John Dillery 51

Chapter 4 Exile on Main Street: Citizen Diogenes / Robert Bracht Branham 71

Chapter 5 Later Greek Voices on the Predicament of Exile: from Teles to Plutarch and Favorinus / Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath 87

Chapter 6 Cicero's Roman Exile / Sarah T. Cohen 109

Chapter 7 Exile in Latin Epic / Stephen J. Harrison 129

Chapter 8 Ovid and the 'Poetics of Exile': How Exilic is Ovid's Exile Poetry / Jan Felix Gaertner 155

Chapter 9 Dialogues of Displacement: Seneca's Consolations to Helvia and Polybius / Elaine Fantham 173

Chapter 10 Dio's Exile: Politics, Philosophy, Literature / Paolo Desideri 193

Chapter 11 Ovid and the Medieval Exilic Imaginary / Ralph J. Hexter 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-256) and index.

ISBN:

9004155155

9789004155152

OCLC:

74526259