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UNISA996200839703316 |
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White Peter <1941-> |
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Titolo |
Cicero in letters [[electronic resource] ] : epistolary relations of the late republic / / Peter White |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-988918-X |
0-19-991434-6 |
1-282-69834-6 |
9786612698347 |
0-19-975057-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Latin letters - History and criticism |
Statesmen - Rome - History and criticism |
Letter writing, Latin - History - To 1500 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""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"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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