Ancient letters [[electronic resource] ] : classical and late antique epistolography / / edited by Ruth Morello and A. D. Morrison

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 876.0109
• Soggetto topico: Latin letters - History and criticism; Letter writing, Latin - History; Authors, Latin - History and criticism; Statesmen - Rome - History and criticism
• Altri autori: MorelloRuth MorrisonA. D
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-366) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 l
• Titolo autorizzato: Ancient letters
• ISBN: 1-281-14868-7; 9786611148683; 0-19-152535-9; 1-4356-2108-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996217850703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno