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Zusatztext a rich collection of scholarly essays... The editors have done a marvellous job of weaving these essays together so that...while each piece also stands on its own, to read the whole volume is to trace the development of ancient letter writing and to keep re-examining the central themes of the volumes in always illuminating ways... [it offers] sensitive scholarship. Informationen zum Autor Ruth Morello and A. D. Morrison arre both Lecturers in Classics at the University of Manchester. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung A series of case studies in ancient letters, asking how each letter writer manipulates the epistolary tradition, why he chose the letter form over any other, and what effect the publication of volumes of collected letters might have had upon a reader's engagement with epistolary works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: What is a letter? 1: G. O. Hutchinson: Down among the documents: criticism and papyrus letters 2: John Henderson: `... when who should walk into the room but': epistoliterarity in Cicero, Ad Qfr 3.1 3: Stanley E. Hoffer: Cicero's `stomach': political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Cicero's correspondence 4: A. D. Morrison: Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's Epistles 1 5: Brad Inwood: The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters 6: Roger Rees: Letters of recommendation and the rhetoric of praise 7: Ruth Morello: Confidence, inuidia, and Pliny's epistolary curriculum 8: William Fitzgerald: The letter's the thing (in Pliny, Book 7) 9: D. R. Langslow: The Epistula in ancient scientific and technical literature, with special reference to medicine 10: Annelise Freisenbruch: Back to Fronto: doctor and patient in his correspondence with an emperor 11: Jason Konig: Alciphron's epistolarity 12: Owen Hodkinson: Better than speech: some advantages of the letter in the Second Sophistic 13: Jennifer Ebbeler: Mixed messages: the play of epistolary codes in two late antique Latin correspondences 14: Andrew Fear: St Patrick and the art of allusion ...
