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Classical Dictionary. N.d. Print. Path: Consolatio; Kassel quote: "Death brings release from the miseries of life; time heals all griefs; future ills should be prepared for; the deceased was only 'lent'--be grateful for having possessed him. Normally grief is
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often delivered consolatory speeches to comfort mourners at funerals or in cases of public mourning. Friends wrote personal letters consoling each other on the loss of a loved one. These were often highly personal and emotional. In addition to personal offerings of solace,
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Kierdorf, Wilhelm (Köln); "Consolatio as a literary genre." Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and
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could only offer the solace of friendships and a sense of duty. The 'art of mourning' 's general revival was expressed in many consolatory letters that circulated in manuscript and were soon printed. Among them
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Christian and Classical consolations in his consolatory oration for Antonio Marcello on the death of his son (1461). Marilyn Aronberg Lavin reads
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works draw from a relatively narrow range of arguments aimed at offering solace, to allay the distress caused by the death of a loved one, a matter of ill
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on grief. These works are usually more detached in tone, and many are written in essay format. Many ancient poets even wrote verse in this distinct
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belief in the healing power of discourse. Others believe it arose as a response to passages of grief found in the works of the Greek poet
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tradition can be found in a plethora of later works, and the tradition continued through the Middle Ages and into the early modern era.
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39:Not to be confused with
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360:Reception and influence
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425:Flagellation of Christ
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420:Piero della Francesca
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284:in verse form is the
224:Tusculan Disputations
176:Tusculan Disputations
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660:and mortality in art
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350:consolatio ad uxorem
290:Consolatio ad Liviam
230:. Crantor advocated
208:consolatio tradition
70:Renaissance humanism
1112:The Shadow of Death
1105:The Garden of Death
1049:La Calavera Catrina
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326:Apollonius of Tyana
79:as a literary genre
54:consolatory oration
34:Consolatio (Cicero)
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366:Middle Ages
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274:Ad Polybium
1187:Categories
920:Left Ginza
887:Literature
765:Death mask
686:Consolatio
679:Carpe diem
480:References
444:consolatio
434:consolatio
422:'s gnomic
385:consolatio
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342:consolatio
304:consolatio
282:consolatio
270:Ad Marciam
262:consolatio
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97:consolatio
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85:consolatio
77:Consolatio
49:consolatio
977:Totentanz
442:parodied
346:De exilio
308:Antiquity
236:Cicero's
151:treatises
142:antiquity
138:antiquity
1213:Rhetoric
1160:Erlkönig
1001:Guercino
988:Painting
970:Erlkönig
790:Memorial
738:Ubi sunt
529:(1970) "
506:pp. 80–2
456:See also
412:grieving
392:Petrarch
334:Libanius
254:Stoicism
191:Boethius
1006:Poussin
829:Artwork
815:Tragedy
805:Requiem
749:Vanitas
711:Macabre
322:Statius
127:Sophist
121:History
102:fortuna
1137:Poetry
1056:Plague
820:Wreath
785:Lament
666:Themes
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469:Eulogy
414:, and
332:, and
330:Julian
276:, and
189:, and
181:Seneca
171:Cicero
940:Music
795:Mummy
770:Elegy
758:Forms
658:Death
381:topoi
163:topoi
131:Homer
868:Film
810:Tomb
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