Ancient Letters. Classical and Late Antique Epistolography

Ruth Morello, A.D. Morrison (ed.), Ancient Letters. Classical and Late Antique Epistolography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, xvii-373p.

Isbn (ean13): 978-0-19-920395-6.

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List of Abbreviations xv

List of Contributors xvi

INTRODUCTION: What is a Letter? 1

Roy K. Gibson and A. D. Morrison

1.Down among the Documents: Criticism and Papyrus Letters 17

G. O. Hutchinson

2. when who should walk into the room but : Epistoliterarity in Cicero, Ad Qfr. 3.1 37

John Henderson

3.Ciceros Stomach: Political Indignation and the Use of Repeated Allusive Expressions in Ciceros Correspondence 87

Stanley E. Hoffer

4.Didacticism and Epistolarity in Horaces Epistles 1 107

A. D. Morrison

5.The Importance of Form in Senecas Philosophical Letters 133

Brad Inwood

6.Letters of Recommendation and the Rhetoric of Praise 149

Roger Rees

7.Confidence, Inuidia, and Plinys Epistolary Curriculum 169

Ruth Morello

8.The Letters the Thing (in Pliny, Book 7) 191

William Fitzgerald

9.The Epistula in Ancient Scientific and Technical Literature, with Special Reference to Medicine 211

D. R. Langslow

10.Back to Fronto: Doctor and Patient in his Correspondence with an Emperor 235

Annelise Freisenbruch

11.Alciphrons Epistolarity 257

Jason Knig

12.Better than Speech: Some Advantages of the Letter in the Second Sophistic 283

Owen Hodkinson

13.Mixed Messages: The Play of Epistolary Codes in Two Late Antique Latin Correspondences 301

Jennifer Ebbeler

14.St Patrick and the Art of Allusion 325

Andrew Fear

Appendix to Chapter 14: Epistola ad Milites Corotici, translated by David Howlett 338

Bibliography 349

Index of Subjects 367

Index of Names 000