Aelian offers us entertaining vignettes of rural life in twenty letters that portray the country ways of their imagined writers. This volume also contains invented letters--mostly to fictitious characters--by Alciphron and, in the same genre, the Erotic Epistles of Philostratus (probably Flavius Philostratus, author of "Apollonius of Tyana").
The fictitious, highly literary Letters of Alciphron are mostly addressed to invented characters. The Letters of Farmers by Aelian portray the country ways of their imagined writers. The Erotic Epistles of Philostratus resemble and may have been influenced by those of Alciphron.
The fictitious, highly literary Letters of Alciphron are mostly addressed to invented characters. The Letters of Farmers by Aelian portray the country ways of their imagined writers. The Erotic Epistles of Philostratus resemble and may have been influenced by those of Alciphron.