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

311 Pages·2007·2.33 MB·English

by  Gaertner

Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement
in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond
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Mnemosyne
Bibliotheca Classica Batava
Editorial Board
H. Pinkster - H.S. Versnel
I.J.F. de Jong - P.H. Schrijvers
VOLUME 83
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Writing Exile: The Discourse of
Displacement in Greco-Roman
Antiquity and Beyond
Edited by
Jan Felix Gaertner
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2007
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This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication data
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ISSN: 0169-8958
ISBN-13: 978-90-04-15515-2
ISBN-10: 90-04-15515-5
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CONTENTS
Preface ........................................................................................... vii
Abbreviations .................................................................................. ix
Notes on the Contributors .................................................................. xi
Chapter 1. The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman
Antiquity ................................................................................. 1
Jan Felix Gaertner
Chapter 2. Early Expatriates: Displacement and Exile in
Archaic Poetry ......................................................................... 21
Ewen L. Bowie
Chapter 3. Exile: the Making of the Greek Historian ................ 51
John Dillery
Chapter 4. Exile on Main Street: Citizen Diogenes ................... 71
Robert Bracht Branham
Chapter 5. Later Greek Voices on the Predicament of Exile:
from Teles to Plutarch and Favorinus ..................................... 87
Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
Chapter 6. Cicero’s Roman Exile ............................................... 109
Sarah T. Cohen
Chapter 7. Exile in Latin Epic .................................................... 129
Stephen J. Harrison
Chapter 8. Ovid and the ‘Poetics of Exile’: How Exilic is Ovid’s
Exile Poetry ............................................................................. 155
Jan Felix Gaertner
Chapter 9. Dialogues of Displacement: Seneca’s Consolations
to Helvia and Polybius ............................................................ 173
Elaine Fantham
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Chapter 10. Dio’s Exile: Politics, Philosophy, Literature ............. 193
Paolo Desideri
Chapter 11. Ovid and the Medieval Exilic Imaginary ............... 209
Ralph J. Hexter
Bibliography ................................................................................... 237
General Index ................................................................................. 257
Index of Greek ................................................................................ 273
Index of Latin ................................................................................ 275
Index Locorum ................................................................................ 277
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PREFACE
The germ of this book lies in a Corpus Christi Classical Seminar on
“Exile and Exiles” at the University of Oxford (Michaelmas term 2001),
at which earlier versions of six of the papers of this collection were
read. The positive response to the seminar as well as the status quaestionis
encouraged me to envisage this publication.
The central aim of the seminar was to show that the topic of exile in
antiquity is not at all limited to the three most prominent exiles Cicero,
Ovid, and Seneca, but that this trias exulum has to be placed in a far
larger and more complex discourse of exile and displacement, ranging
from Cynicism to Late Antiquity. The present volume adopts an even
broader perspective, tracing traditions of concepts and motifs from the
oral antecedents of the Iliadand the Odyssey down to the age of Petrarch
and demonstrating the immense impact of these traditions on the way
in which individuals perceived and described their (real or metaphorical)
exile.
I would like to thank the Corpus Christi College Centre for the Study
of Greek and Roman Antiquity and the Faculty of Literae Humaniores
of the University of Oxford for generously supporting the original
seminar. E. L. Bowie fi rst suggested to me the topic and has been
extremely helpful ever since. In the editorial work S. J. Harrison has
been a magnaque pars animi consiliique mei and has read and commented on
considerable parts of this book. J. A. Richmond and N. W. Slater kindly
checked the English of two of the contributions, acutely alerting me also
to several philological problems. S. Jödicke has been a tremendous help
by checking references and compiling parts of the indices. Moreover,
I am grateful to D. Colomo, M. Deufert, S. Gerke, C. Gronemann,
P. Grossardt, J. Hazenbos, and R. Hexter for comments on a draft of
the introduction. Finally, I would like to thank I. van Rossum, K. F. Plas,
and L. Aalders at Brill, and all of the contributors for their cooperation
and patience.
J. F. G.
Leipzig
10 May 2006
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ABBREVIATIONS
The abbreviations of Latin authors and their works are generally the
same as those used in the Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD). However, authors
and works not cited in OLD are abbreviated as in the Thesaurus Linguae
Latinae (TLL), ‘Cat.’ points to ‘Catullus’, and, for reasons of clarity,
Seneca’s consolations ad Marciam,ad Polybium,andad Helviam (Sen.Dial.
6, 11, and 12) are referred to as Marc., Polyb., and Helv. Greek authors
and works as well as collections of epigraphic, papyrological, and other
material are abbreviated as in the Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD3).
Further abbreviations used in this volume are:
ALL Wölffl in, E. et al. (1884–1908): Archiv für lateinische
Lexikographie und Grammatik, Leipzig.
CE Buecheler, F. (1895–7): Carmina Latina Epigraphica,
Leipzig.
Chaniotis Chaniotis, A. (1996): Die Verträge zwischen kretischen
Poleis in der hellenistischen Zeit, Stuttgart.
Chantraine Chantraine, P. (1968 ff.): Dictionnaire étymologique de la
langue grecque. Histoire des mots, Paris.
Ernout/Meillet Ernout, A./Meillet, A. (1985): Dictionnaire étymologique
de la langue latine, 4. éd., 4. tirage augm. d’additions et
de corrections nouv. par Jacques André, Paris.
FGrHist Jacoby, F. (1923 ff.): Die Fragmente der griechischen Histo-
riker, Berlin/Leiden.
FHG Müller, C. (1841–70): Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum,
Paris.
HS Hofmann, J. B./Szantyr, A. (1972): Lateinische Syntax
und Stilistik, München.
IOSPE Latyshev, V. (1885–1901): Inscriptiones antiquae orae
septentrionalis Pontis Euxini Graecae et Latinae, St.
Petersburg.
KS Kühner, R./Stegmann, C. (1955): Ausführliche Gram-
matik der lateinischen Sprache. Satzlehre, 3rd edn.,
Leverkusen.
LSJ Liddell, H. G./Scott, R. (1996): A Greek-English Lexicon,
9th edn., rev. and augm. throughout by H. S. Jones
et al., Oxford.
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