Exile
idea · 5 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Exile the event
exile · an exile is a helpless man · banishment · change of place · changing regions · my exile · unhappy exile
in the texts
Orations
The speaker's period of banishment, endured through fortitude and defiance of the tyrant.
For how I bore my exile — not overcome by the want of friends, nor by lack of money, nor by bodily weakness, and in addition to all these enduring as an enemy not this man or that, some equal or like myself who now and then raised his voice, but the strongest and most grievous, the one called master and god among all Greeks and barbarians, but who in truth was a wicked demon — and that too neither …
Electra
The condition of homelessness and powerlessness afflicting Orestes as an exile, discussed explicitly in the dialogue.
He has that, but an exile is a helpless man at best.
Where does the unhappy one live, in his unhappy exile?
Consolation to Helvia
The condition of banishment/change of place that the whole treatise seeks to show is not truly an evil.
No exile can be found within the world;
you will find no place of exile in which someone does not linger of his own choice.
for the moment I wish first to examine what bitterness the mere change of place brings.
On Providence
Banishment from one's homeland, listed among the standard hardships (poverty, exile, death, disgrace) that test good men.
she tries fire upon Mucius, poverty upon Fabricius, exile upon Rutilius, torture upon Regulus, poison upon Socrates, death upon Cato.
"Is it for their good," you say, "to be cast into exile, reduced to want, to carry out for burial their children and their wife, to be branded with disgrace, to be crippled?
On the Happy Life
Banishment from one's homeland, cited as a hardship the philosopher claims to regard as indifferent.
And does he think exile an empty word and say, 'For what evil is there in changing regions?