02656nam 2200601Ia 450 99620083970331620230725024834.00-19-988918-X0-19-991434-61-282-69834-697866126983470-19-975057-2(CKB)2670000000040683(EBL)3053778(OCoLC)650562861(SSID)ssj0000409813(PQKBManifestationID)11297418(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000409813(PQKBWorkID)10347974(PQKB)11560281(StDuBDS)EDZ0000077147(MiAaPQ)EBC3053778(EXLCZ)99267000000004068320090810d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCicero in letters[electronic resource] epistolary relations of the late republic /Peter WhiteNew York ;Oxford Oxford University Press20101 online resource (250 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-986671-6 0-19-538851-8 Includes bibliographical references.""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""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.Latin lettersHistory and criticismStatesmenRomeCorrespondenceHistory and criticismLetter writing, LatinHistoryTo 1500Latin lettersHistory and criticism.StatesmenHistory and criticism.Letter writing, LatinHistory876/.01White Peter1941-1008842MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996200839703316Cicero in letters2340855UNISA