Ancient letters : classical and late antique epistolography /

The surviving body of ancient letters offers the reader a stunning variety of material, ranging from the everyday letters preserved among the Oxyrhynchus papyri to imperial rescripts, New Testament Epistles, fictional or pseudepigraphical letters and a wealth of missives on almost every conceivable...

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Other Authors:	Morello, Ruth (Editor), Morrison, A. D. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Latin letters > History and criticism. Letter writing, Latin > History. Authors, Latin > Correspondence > History. Statesmen > Rome > Correspondence > History. Lettres latines (Genre littéraire) > Histoire et critique. Correspondance latine > Histoire. Écrivains latins > Correspondance > Histoire. Hommes d'État > Rome > Correspondance > Histoire. LITERARY CRITICISM. Authors, Latin > Correspondence Latin letters Letter writing, Latin Statesmen > Correspondence Rome (Empire) Antike Epistolographie Brief Brieven. Briefwisseling. Klassieke talen. Latein. Griechisch. Authors, Latin > Correspondence > History and criticism. Statesmen > Rome > Correspondence > History and criticism. Brevskrivning > antiken. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History personal correspondence. Personal correspondence. Correspondance privée. Konferenzschrift > 2004 > Manchester.
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Table of Contents:

What is a letter? / Roy K. Gibson, A.D. Morrison
Down among the documents : criticism and papyrus letters / G.O. Hutchinson
When who should walk into the room but ... : epistoliterarity in Cicero, ad qfr. 3.1 / John Henderson
Cicero's stomach : political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Ciceros correspondence / Stanley E. Hoffer
Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's epistles 1 / A.D. Morrison
The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters / Brad Inwood
Letters of recommendation and the rhetoric of praise / Roger Rees
Confidence, Inuidia, and Pliny's epistolary curriculum / Ruth Morello
The letter's the thing (in Pliny, book 7) / William Fitzgerald
The epistula in ancient scientific and technical literature, with special reference to medicine / D.R. Langslow
Back to Fronto : doctor and patient in his correspondence with an emperor / Annelise Freisenbruch
Alciphron's epistolarity / Jason Konig
Better than speech : some advantages of the letter in the Second Sophistic / Owen Hodkinson
Mixed messages : the play of epistolary codes in two late antique Latin correspondences / Jennifer Ebbeler
St Patrick and the art of allusion / Andrew Fear.