1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996200839703316

Autore

White Peter <1941->

Titolo

Cicero in letters [[electronic resource] ] : epistolary relations of the late republic / / Peter White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-19-988918-X

0-19-991434-6

1-282-69834-6

9786612698347

0-19-975057-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Disciplina

876/.01

Soggetti

Latin letters - History and criticism

Statesmen - Rome - History and criticism

Letter writing, Latin - History - To 1500

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.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Part I: Reading the Letters from the Outside In""; ""1. Constraints and Biases in Roman Letter Writing""; ""2. The Editing of the Collection""; ""3. Frames of the Letter""; ""Part II: Epistolary Preoccupations""; ""4. The Letters and Literature""; ""5. Giving and Getting Advice by Letter""; ""6. Letter Writing and Leadership""; ""Afterword: The Collection in Hindsight""; ""Appendix 1: Quantifying the Letter Corpus""; ""Appendix 2: Contemporary Works Mentioned in the Letters""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Persons""; ""Index of Passages""

Sommario/riassunto

This is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than 800 letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704869303321

Autore

Stone Paul <1947->

Titolo

Geochronologic and geochemical data from Mesozoic rocks in the Black Mountains area northeast of Victorville, San Bernardino County, California / / by Paul Stone [and five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Virginia : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 31 pages) : color illustrations, color maps

Collana

Open-file report ; ; 2013-1146

Soggetti

Geological mapping - California - San Bernardino County

Geology, Stratigraphic - Mesozoic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Nov. 25, 2013).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 8-10).