A short survey on islands viewed as 'blessed places' is presented, from imaginary (utopian) to real ones: the 'Fortunate Isles' featuring in Timaios and Diodorus, and longed for by Sertorius in Sallust and Plutarch; the arva beata, where Horace exhorts the Romans to take refuge during the civil wars; Seneca's Corsica, a place where the sapiens - although exiled - experiences true freedom; Lerins, an insular paradise for the monks living there from the 5th century AD.
Paradisi insulari / P.F. Moretti (CLASSICI CONTRO). - In: Philoxenia : viaggi e viaggiatori nella Grecia di ieri e di oggi / [a cura di] A. Capra, S. Martinelli Tempesta, C. Nobili. - Prima edizione. - Sesto S. Giovanni : Mimesis, 2020. - ISBN 8857563588. - pp. 175-186
Paradisi insulari
P.F. Moretti
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2020
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A short survey on islands viewed as 'blessed places' is presented, from imaginary (utopian) to real ones: the 'Fortunate Isles' featuring in Timaios and Diodorus, and longed for by Sertorius in Sallust and Plutarch; the arva beata, where Horace exhorts the Romans to take refuge during the civil wars; Seneca's Corsica, a place where the sapiens - although exiled - experiences true freedom; Lerins, an insular paradise for the monks living there from the 5th century AD.
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