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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765817003321

Autore

Rosenmeyer Patricia A.

Titolo

Ancient Greek literary letters : selections in translation / / Patricia A. Rosenmeyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2006

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

9786610562848

9781134451050

1134451059

9781280562846

1280562846

9780203964781

0203964780

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

Routledge classical translations

Classificazione

HIS002000HIS002010HIS039000

Disciplina

886.0109

Soggetti

Greek letters - History and criticism

Epistolary fiction, Greek - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK-COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 CLASSICAL GREEK LITERARY LETTERS; 2 HELLENISTIC LITERARY LETTERS; 3 LETTERS AND PROSE FICTIONS OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC; 4 THE EPISTOLARY NOVELLA; 5 PSEUDO-HISTORICAL LETTER COLLECTIONS OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC; 6 INVENTED CORRESPONDENCES, IMAGINARY VOICES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The first reference to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the works of historians but they also formed the basis of works of fiction, and the formal substructure for many kinds of poem. Patricia Rosenmeyer, an authority on the history



of the Greek letter, assembles in this book a representative selection of such 'literary letters', from Aelian and Alciphron to Philostrartus and the supposed letters