03866nam 2200637 a 450 99621785070331620240202165536.01-281-14868-797866111486830-19-152535-91-4356-2108-5(PPN)197761275(CKB)1000000000375208(EBL)679388(OCoLC)271577540(SSID)ssj0000085346(PQKBManifestationID)11126074(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085346(PQKBWorkID)10007553(PQKB)10235822(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073842(MiAaPQ)EBC679388(EXLCZ)99100000000037520820070117d2007 uy iengur|n|---|||||txtccrAncient letters[electronic resource] classical and late antique epistolography /edited by Ruth Morello and A. D. MorrisonOxford Oxford University Press20071 online resource (392 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-170824-0 0-19-920395-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-366) and indexes.What is a letter? / Roy K. Gibson and A. D. Morrison -- Down among the documents : criticism and papyrus letters / G. O. Hutchinson -- '...When who should walk into the room but...' : epistoliterarity in Cicero, ad qfr. 3.1 / John Henderson -- Cicero's stomach : political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Ciceros correspondence / Stanley E. Hoffer -- Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's epistles 1 / A. D. Morrison -- The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters / Brad Inwood -- Letters of recommendation and the rhetoric of praise / Roger Rees -- Confidence, Inuidia, and Pliny's epistolary curriculum / Ruth Morello -- The letter's the thing (in Pliny, book 7) / William Fitzgerald -- The epistula in ancient scientific and technical literature, with special reference to medicine / D. R. Langslow -- Back to Fronto : doctor and patient in his correspondence with an emperor / Annelise Freisenbruch -- Alciphron's epistolarity / Jason Konig -- Better than speech : some advantages of the letter in the Second Sophistic / Owen Hodkinson -- Mixed messages : the play of epistolary codes in two late antique Latin correspondences / Jennifer Ebbeler -- St Patrick and the art of allusion / Andrew Fear.The surviving body of ancient letters offers the reader a stunning variety of material, ranging from the everyday letters preserved among the Oxyrhynchus papyri to imperial rescripts, New Testament Epistles, fictional or pseudepigraphical letters and a wealth of missives on almost every conceivable subject. They offer us a unique insight into ancient practices in the fields of politics, literature, philosophy, medicine and many other areas. This collection presents a series of casestudies in ancient letters, asking how each letter writer manipulates the epistolary tradition, why he chose the lLatin lettersHistory and criticismLetter writing, LatinHistoryAuthors, LatinCorrespondenceHistory and criticismStatesmenRomeCorrespondenceHistory and criticismLatin lettersHistory and criticism.Letter writing, LatinHistory.Authors, LatinHistory and criticism.StatesmenHistory and criticism.876.0109Morello Ruth732503Morrison A. D627976MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996217850703316Ancient letters2321895UNISA