Ancient Greek Letter Writing - A Cultural History (600 Bc- 150 Bc)

Zusatztext Undoubtedly this book represents a useful complement to studies that deal with the later periods of Greek epistolography. Informationen zum Autor Paola Ceccarelli is Fellow in Classics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Her research interests range from ancient dance and theatre to ancient historiography and epistolary writing. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1: Ancient Greek Letters: An Introduction Part I: Greek Beginnings: Writing and Letter Writing, Evidence and Representation 2: Writing and Letter Writing: The Evidence 3: Writing and Letter Writing: Representations 4: When a Letter and Why? Narrative Strategies in the Ancient Historians Part II: Letter-Writing and the Polis 5: Writing and Letter-Writing on the Athenian Dramatic Stage 6: Letters on the Legal and Political Stage 7: Royal Letters and City Decrees: the Greek Cities and Epistolary Writing 8: Epilogue Appendix I Archaic and Classical Documentary Letters Appendix II Some ancient texts on the invention of writing Appendix III Official Letters sent by Greek Poleis or Koina and Inscribed on Stone Bibliography Index ...

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• Authors: Paola Ceccarelli, Paola (Fellow in Classics Ceccarelli, Ceccarelli Paola
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2013
• EAN: 9780199675593
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967559-3
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form