LEADER 04968nam a22009015i 4500 001 991004232815207536 005 20231110212455.0 006 m|||||o||d|||||||| 007 cr || |||||||| 008 190723s2017 gw fo d z eng d 020 $a9783110423488 020 $a3110423480 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110426953$2doi 035 $a(CKB)4100000002260354 035 $a(DE-B1597)451606 035 $a(OCoLC)1013957440 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110426953 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5507663 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5507663 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/52848 035 $a(PPN)221104275 035 $a(Perlego)647614 035 $a(oapen)doab52848 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000002260354 040 $aDE-B1597$beng$cDE-B1597$erda 041 0 $aeng 044 $agw$cDE 050 00$aPA3042$b.S37 2018 072 7$aHIS002000$2bisacsh 082 04$a930$223 084 $aAM 45200$2rvk 100 1 $aSarri, Antonia, $eauthor.$0962080 245 10$aMaterial Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World :$bc. 500 BC - c. AD 300 /$cAntonia Sarri. 250 $a1st ed. 260 $bDe Gruyter$c2018 264 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston : $bDe Gruyter, $c[2017] 264 4$c©2018 300 $a1 online resource (396 p.) 336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent 337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia 338 $aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier 490 0 $aMateriale Textkulturen ;$v12 505 00$tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $t1. The Development of the Ancient Letter -- $t2. Evidence -- $t3. Format and Layout -- $t4. Authentication -- $tAppendices -- $tAppendix I: Letters in Archives -- $tAppendix II: Dimensions of Letters -- $tAppendix III: Letters with Handshifts -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 520 $aLetter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World. 530 $aIssued also in print. 536 $afunded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 540 $aThis eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified individually in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: $uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 $uhttps://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy 546 $aIn English. 588 0 $aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019) 650 4$aBriefe. 650 4$aEpistolografie. 650 4$aEpistolography. 650 4$aGraeco-Roman Egypt. 650 4$aGriechisch-Römisches Ägypten. 650 4$aLetters. 650 4$aPapyrus. 650 4$apapyrus. 650 7$aBrief.$0(DE-601)104675365$0(DE-588)4008240-4$2gnd 650 7$aKonvention.$0(DE-601)105195634$0(DE-588)4197552-2$2gnd 650 7$aGriechisch.$0(DE-601)105826847$0(DE-588)4113791-7$2gnd 650 7$aPapyrus.$0(DE-601)106204971$0(DE-588)4044571-9$2gnd 650 7$aHISTORY / Ancient / General.$2bisacsh 653 $aEpistolography. 653 $aGraeco-Roman Egypt. 653 $aLetters. 653 $apapyrus. 710 2 $aDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft$efunder.$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 720 1 $aSarri, Antonia$4aut 776 08$z9783110426953 776 08$z3110426951 776 08$z9783110426946 776 08$z3110426943 793 0 $aDOAB Library. 830 0$aMateriale Textkulturen 906 $aBOOK 912 $a991004232815207536 996 $aMaterial Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World$92181309 997 $aUNISALENTO