1st Edition
Ancient Greek Literary Letters Selections in Translation
By Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Copyright 2006
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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.
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1. Classical Greek Literary Letters 2. Hellenistic Literary Letters 3. Letters and Prose Fictions of the Second Sophistic 4. The Epistolary Novella 5. Pseudo-Historical Letter Collections of the Second Sophistic 6. Invented Correspondences, Imaginary Voices
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