Cicero in letters [[electronic resource] ] : epistolary relations of the late republic / / Peter White
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| Autore: |
White Peter <1941->
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| Titolo: |
Cicero in letters [[electronic resource] ] : epistolary relations of the late republic / / Peter White
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 876/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Latin letters - History and criticism |
| Statesmen - Rome - History and criticism | |
| Letter writing, Latin - History - To 1500 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cicero in letters |
| ISBN: | 0-19-988918-X |
| 0-19-991434-6 | |
| 1-282-69834-6 | |
| 9786612698347 | |
| 0-19-975057-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996200839703316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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