Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond (Mnemosyne, Supplements)
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Author(s)Gaertner
PublisherBRILL
ISBN / ASIN9004155155
ISBN-139789004155152
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Sales Rank10,977,097
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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.