LEADER 03866nam 2200637 a 450 001 996217850703316 005 20240202165536.0 010 $a1-281-14868-7 010 $a9786611148683 010 $a0-19-152535-9 010 $a1-4356-2108-5 035 $a(PPN)197761275 035 $a(CKB)1000000000375208 035 $a(EBL)679388 035 $a(OCoLC)271577540 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000085346 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11126074 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085346 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10007553 035 $a(PQKB)10235822 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073842 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC679388 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000375208 100 $a20070117d2007 uy i 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAncient letters$b[electronic resource] $eclassical and late antique epistolography /$fedited by Ruth Morello and A. D. Morrison 210 $aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (392 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-170824-0 311 $a0-19-920395-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [349]-366) and indexes. 327 $aWhat 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. 330 $aThe 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 l 606 $aLatin letters$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLetter writing, Latin$xHistory 606 $aAuthors, Latin$vCorrespondence$xHistory and criticism 606 $aStatesmen$zRome$vCorrespondence$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aLatin letters$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLetter writing, Latin$xHistory. 615 0$aAuthors, Latin$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aStatesmen$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a876.0109 701 $aMorello$b Ruth$0732503 701 $aMorrison$b A. D$0627976 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996217850703316 996 $aAncient letters$92321895 997 $aUNISA