Ancient letters: classical and late antique epistolography
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...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Oxford [u.a.]
Oxford University Press
2007
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| In: | Year: 2007 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Greek language
/ Epistolography
B Latin / Epistolography |
| Further subjects: | B
Latin letters
History and criticism
B Collection of essays B Authors, Latin Correspondence History and criticism B Letter-writing, Latin History B Letter writing, Latin History B Authors, Latin Correspondence History and criticism B Statesmen (Rome) Correspondence History and criticism B Statesmen Correspondence History and criticism Rome |
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Table of Contents |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | XVII, 373 S., Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0-19-920395-4 978-0-19-920395-6 |
