03238nam 22007333 450 991076581700332120241107093423.09786610562848978113445105011344510599781280562846128056284697802039647810203964780https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203964781(CKB)1000000000360342(EBL)274407(OCoLC)476018918(SSID)ssj0000103287(PQKBManifestationID)11131237(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000103287(PQKBWorkID)10070165(PQKB)10460106(MiAaPQ)EBC274407(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27864(MiAaPQ)EBC7244875(ODN)ODN0004013935(ScCtBLL)13ef6dfd-217a-444a-a3a2-c30b3d9cf82d(OCoLC)1135849259(oapen)doab27864(EXLCZ)99100000000036034220231110d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAncient Greek literary letters selections in translation /Patricia A. Rosenmeyer2006Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, NY :Routledge,2006.©20061 online resource (178 p.)Routledge classical translationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-28550-X 0-415-28551-8 Includes bibliographical references 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 lettersRoutledge classical translations.Greek lettersHistory and criticismEpistolary fiction, GreekHistory and criticismGreek lettersHistory and criticism.Epistolary fiction, GreekHistory and criticism.886.0109HIS002000HIS002010HIS039000bisacshRosenmeyer Patricia A.188207MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910765817003321Ancient Greek literary letters1219365UNINA