02636nam 2200541Ia 450 991034823520332120190328203948.01-134-45105-91-280-56284-697866105628480-203-96478-0(CKB)1000000000360342(EBL)274407(OCoLC)476018918(SSID)ssj0000103287(PQKBManifestationID)11131237(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000103287(PQKBWorkID)10070165(PQKB)10460106(MiAaPQ)EBC274407(EXLCZ)99100000000036034220050429d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAncient Greek literary letters[electronic resource] selections in translation /Patricia A. RosenmeyerLondon ;New York Routledge20061 online resource (178 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-28551-8 0-415-28550-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-164) and index.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; INDEXThe 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 lettersGreek lettersHistory and criticismEpistolary fiction, GreekHistory and criticismElectronic books.Greek lettersHistory and criticism.Epistolary fiction, GreekHistory and criticism.886.0109Rosenmeyer Patricia A188207MiAaPQBOOK9910348235203321Ancient Greek literary letters1219365UNINA