Paola Ceccarelli

Ancient Greek Letter Writing

A Cultural History (600 Bc- 150 Bc)

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Produktbeschreibung

Ceccarelli offers a history of the development of letter writing in ancient Greece from the archaic to the early Hellenistic period. Highlighting the specificity of letter-writing, the volume looks at documentary letters and traces the role of embedded letters in the texts of the ancient historians, in drama, and in the speeches of the orators.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780199675593
• ISBN-10: 0199675597
• Artikelnr.: 37720532

Autorenporträt

Paola Ceccarelli is Fellow in Classics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Her research interests range from ancient dance and theatre to ancient historiography and epistolary writing.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* List of Abbreviations
* 1: Ancient Greek Letters: An Introduction
* Part I: Greek Beginnings: Writing and Letter Writing, Evidence and
Representation
* 2: Writing and Letter Writing: The Evidence
* 3: Writing and Letter Writing: Representations
* 4: When a Letter and Why? Narrative Strategies in the Ancient
Historians
* Part II: Letter-Writing and the Polis
* 5: Writing and Letter-Writing on the Athenian Dramatic Stage
* 6: Letters on the Legal and Political Stage
* 7: Royal Letters and City Decrees: the Greek Cities and Epistolary
Writing
* 8: Epilogue
* Appendix I
* Archaic and Classical Documentary Letters
* Appendix II
* Some ancient texts on the invention of writing
* Appendix III
* Official Letters sent by Greek Poleis or Koina and Inscribed on Stone
* Bibliography
* Index