Patricia A. Rosenmeyer

Ancient Epistolary Fictions

The Letter in Greek Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive look at the use of imaginary letters in Greek literature, first published in 2001.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780521800044
• ISBN-10: 0521800048
• Artikelnr.: 29339270

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part I. Epistolarity: An Introduction: 1. A culture of letter writing
Part II. Epistolary Fictions: 2. Homer: the father of letters
3. Letters in the historians
4. Staging letters: embedded letters in Euripides
5. Letters in Hellenistic poetry
Part III. The Epistolary Novel: 6. Embedded letters in the Greek novel
7. The Alexander Romance
8. Pseudonymous letter collections
9. Chion of Heraclea: an epistolary novel
Part IV. Epistolography in the Second Sophistic: 10. The Letters of Alciphron
11. Aelian's Rustic Letters
12. The Erotic Epistles of Philostratus
Afterword
Bibliography
Index.