LEADER 02656nam 2200601Ia 450 001 996200839703316 005 20230725024834.0 010 $a0-19-988918-X 010 $a0-19-991434-6 010 $a1-282-69834-6 010 $a9786612698347 010 $a0-19-975057-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000040683 035 $a(EBL)3053778 035 $a(OCoLC)650562861 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000409813 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11297418 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000409813 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10347974 035 $a(PQKB)11560281 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000077147 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3053778 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000040683 100 $a20090810d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCicero in letters$b[electronic resource] $eepistolary relations of the late republic /$fPeter White 210 $aNew York ;$aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-986671-6 311 $a0-19-538851-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a""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"" 330 8 $aThis 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. 606 $aLatin letters$xHistory and criticism 606 $aStatesmen$zRome$vCorrespondence$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLetter writing, Latin$xHistory$yTo 1500 615 0$aLatin letters$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aStatesmen$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLetter writing, Latin$xHistory 676 $a876/.01 700 $aWhite$b Peter$f1941-$01008842 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996200839703316 996 $aCicero in letters$92340855 997 $aUNISA