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Ancient letters : classical and late antique epistolography

Title
Ancient letters : classical and late antique epistolography / edited by Ruth Morello and A. D. Morrison.
ISBN
9780199203956 (alk. paper)
0199203954 (alk. paper)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Physical Description
xvii, 373 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 31, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-366) and indexes.
Contents
What is a letter? / Roy K. Gibson and 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.
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