Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

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. ISBN-13: 9789004155152 Preface 8 Abbreviations 10 Notes on the Contributors 12 Chapter 1. The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity --- Jan Felix Gaertner 14 Chapter 2. Early Expatriates: Displacement and Exile in Archaic Poetry --- Ewen L. Bowie 34 Chapter 3. Exile: the Making of the Greek Historian --- John Dillery 64 Chapter 4. Exile on Main Street: Citizen Diogenes --- Robert Bracht Branham 84 Chapter 5. Later Greek Voices on the Predicament of Exile: from Teles to Plutarch and Favorinus --- Heinz-Günther Nesselrath 100 Chapter 6. Cicero's Roman Exile --- Sarah T. Cohen 122 Chapter 7. Exile in Latin Epic --- Stephen J. Harrison 142 Chapter 8. Ovid and the 'Poetics of Exile': How Exilic is Ovid's Exile Poetry --- Jan Felix Gaertner 168 Chapter 9. Dialogues of Displacement: Seneca's Consolations to Helvia and Polybius --- Elaine Fantham 186 Chapter 10. Dio's Exile: Politics, Philosophy, Literature --- Paolo Desideri 206 Chapter 11. Ovid and the Medieval Exilic Imaginary --- Ralph J. Hexter 222 Bibliography 250 General Index 270 Index of Greek 286 Index of Latin 288 Index Locorum 290 BRILL 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 Discourse Of Displacement In Greco-roman Antiquity / Jan Felix Gaertner -- Early Expatriates / Ewen L. Bowie -- Exile / John Dillery -- Exile On Main Street / Robert Bracht Branham -- Later Greek Voices On The Predicament Of Exile / Heinz-gunther Nesselrath -- Cicero's Roman Exile / Sarah T. Cohen -- Exile In Latin Epic / Stephen J. Harrison -- Ovid And The Poetics Of Exile / Jan Felix Gaertner -- Dialogues Of Displacement / Elaine Fantham -- Dio's Exile / Paolo Desideri -- Ovid And The Medieval Exilic Imaginary / Ralph J. Hexter. Edited By Jan Felix Gaertner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.