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Author: Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1134451059
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 CLASSICAL GREEK LITERARY LETTERS -- chapter 2 HELLENISTIC LITERARY LETTERS -- chapter 3 Letters and prose fictions of the Second Sophistic -- chapter 4 THE EPISTOLARY NOVELLA -- chapter 5 PSEUDO-HISTORICAL LETTER COLLECTIONS OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC -- chapter 6 INVENTED CORRESPONDENCES, IMAGINARY VOICES.
Author: Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1134451040
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the works of historians but they also formed the basis of works of fiction, and the formal substructure for many kinds of poem. Patricia Rosenmeyer, an authority on the history of the Greek letter, assembles in this book a representative selection of such 'literary letters', from Aelian and Alciphron to Philostrartus and the supposed letters of Themistocles. The book will be valuable for all students of Greek literature especially those studying Greek (and Latin) letter.
Author: Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-04-30
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0521800048
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive look at the use of imaginary letters in Greek literature, first published in 2001.
Author: Owen Hodkinson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-05-30
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9004253033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Epistolary Narratives presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary letter collections across a range of genres, cultural backgrounds, and time periods, leading collectively towards a better appreciation of Greek epistolary collections as a unique literary phenomenon.
Author: John Muir
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-11-19
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 113416601X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This survey of Greek letter writing from a well-known and respected author introduces students to the whole range of letter writing in the Greek world, and its problems. Greeks wrote letters to each other for business and diplomatic purposes, as teacher to pupil, and as addresses to the wider world.
Author: Stanley K. Stowers
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780664250157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Making use of letters--both formal and personal--that have been preserved through the ages, Stanley Stowers analyzes the cultural setting within which Christianity arose. The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.
Author: Michael Trapp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-03-06
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521499439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 78 letters in this Anthology (41 Greek, 36 Latin and 1 bilingual, with facing English translation) are selected both for their intrinsic interest, and to illustrate the range of functions letters performed in the ancient world. Dating from between c. 500 BC and c. 400 AD, they include naive and high-style, 'real' and 'fictitious', and classical and patristic items: Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Seneca, Pliny, Julian, Basil and Augustine are juxtaposed with Phalaris, Diogenes, Chion, and the authors of letters on lead, wood, papyrus and stone. Four final items exemplify ancient epistolary theory. The Commentary, besides providing contextual and linguistic assistance, draws attention to specifically epistolary features and to different stylistic levels of Greek and Latin represented. Epistolary topics and formulae are discussed in the Introduction, which also provides biographical and bibliographical information on all texts and authors included, and a history of letter-writing and letter-reading in antiquity.
Author: Thomas K. Hubbard
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-11-21
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 1118610687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world. Views the various practices and discursive contexts of sexuality systematically and holistically Discusses Greece and Rome in each chapter, with sensitivity to the continuities and differences between the two classical civilizations Addresses the classical influence on the understanding of later ages and religion Covers artistic and literary genres, various social environments of sexual conduct, and the technical disciplines of medicine, magic, physiognomy, and dream interpretation Features contributions from more than 40 top international scholars
Author: C. D. N. Costa
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2002-01-10
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0191590517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book explores a relatively unfamiliar and under-appreciated area of Greek literature, imaginary letters written between about 100 BC and 500 AD. They are imaginary or fictional either because both writer and recipient are invented, or because they are attributed to real historical characters. In the latter group, the real authors are unknown, whereas we know at least the names of those in the first group. Letter writing, real and fictional, was an important activity in this period, which was also the time that the sophists or professional rhetoricians were very influential in the political and educational life particularly of the Greek east. Many of our authors clearly were sophists practising their skills, especially in character portrayal. This selection opens a window on an attractive, lively, and often amusing area in the history of Greek prose. All the letters are translated, and the commentaries provide both grammatical help and background information.
Author: Paola Ceccarelli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 0199675597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ceccarelli offers a history of the development of letter writing in ancient Greece from the archaic to the early Hellenistic period. Highlighting the specificity of letter-writing, the volume looks at documentary letters and traces the role of embedded letters in the texts of the ancient historians, in drama, and in the speeches of the orators.
