Greek and Latin Letters
Greek and Latin Letters
An Anthology with Translation
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The seventy-eight letters in this Anthology 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.
- Illustrates the wide range of letters surviving from antiquity (500 BC–AD 400)
- Provides a facing-page translation
- Introduction provides detailed background on the practice and function of letter-writing in antiquity
Product details
March 2003Paperback
9780521499439
360 pages
203 × 127 × 20 mm
0.39kg
1 map
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- A. Private letters (1–60)
- B. Public life and official correspondence (61–70)
- C. Embedded letters (71–2)
- D. Epistolary theory (73–6)
- Commentary.
