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Ancient letters classical and late antique epistolography

Title
  1. Ancient letters [electronic resource] : classical and late antique epistolography / edited by Ruth Morello and A. D. Morrison.
Published by
  1. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Additional authors
  1. Morello, Ruth.
  2. Morrison, A. D.
Description
  1. 1 online resource (xvii, 373 p.) : ill.
Uniform title
  1. Ancient letters (Online)
Subject
  1. Latin letters > History and criticism
  2. Letter writing, Latin > History
  3. Authors, Latin > Correspondence > History and criticism
  4. Statesmen > Rome > Correspondence > History and criticism
Contents
  1. What is a letter? / Roy K. Gibson and A. D. Morrison -- Down among the documents : criticism and papyrus letters / G. O. Hutchinson -- '...When who should walk into the room but...' : epistoliterarity in Cicero, ad qfr. 3.1 / John Henderson -- Cicero's stomach : political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Ciceros correspondence / Stanley E. Hoffer -- Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's epistles 1 / A. D. Morrison -- The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters / Brad Inwood -- Letters of recommendation and the rhetoric of praise / Roger Rees -- Confidence, Inuidia, and Pliny's epistolary curriculum / Ruth Morello -- The letter's the thing (in Pliny, book 7) / William Fitzgerald -- The epistula in ancient scientific and technical literature, with special reference to medicine / D. R. Langslow -- Back to Fronto : doctor and patient in his correspondence with an emperor / Annelise Freisenbruch -- Alciphron's epistolarity / Jason Konig -- Better than speech : some advantages of the letter in the Second Sophistic / Owen Hodkinson -- Mixed messages : the play of epistolary codes in two late antique Latin correspondences / Jennifer Ebbeler -- St Patrick and the art of allusion / Andrew Fear.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-366) and indexes.
Access (note)
  1. Access restricted to authorized users.
Title
  1. Ancient letters [electronic resource] : classical and late antique epistolography / edited by Ruth Morello and A. D. Morrison.
Imprint
  1. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-366) and indexes.
Access
  1. Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
  1. Available from home with a valid library card
  2. Available onsite at NYPL
Added author
  1. Morello, Ruth.
  2. Morrison, A. D.
LCCN
  1. 2007001875
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