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Achilles Tatius
Anacreontic Poet
ancient prose fiction
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Author_Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Category=NK
Chaereas And Callirhoe
classical correspondence studies
collection
epistolary
EPISTOLARY NOVELLA
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Face To Face
Father Matris
fictional letter collections research
Follow
Girlfriend
Greek Anthology
Greek epistolary tradition
HELLENISTIC LITERARY
Hellenistic Selections
historical narrative sources
Hold
Holy Men
Honorable Heart
Iph
iphigenia
King's Death Warrant
King’s Death Warrant
literary genre analysis
Man
novella
Persian King
Persona
Previous Governor
Prometheus
pseudonymous
Pseudonymous Letters
Seal Ring
Second Sophistic literature
tatius
tauris
Wo
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415285506
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Patricia Rosenmeyer, an authority on the history of the Greek letter, assembles in this book a representative selection of such 'literary letters', from Aelian and Alciphron to Philostrartus and the supposed letters of Themistocles.
The book will be valuable for all students of Greek literature especially those studying Greek (and Latin) letter.
