Peter White

Cicero in Letters

Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

Cicero in Letters analyzes letter-writing habits and political preoccupations that define the correspondence between Cicero and his contemporaries during a period of crisis at the end of the Roman Republic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780199914340
• ISBN-10: 0199914346
• Artikelnr.: 34740034

Autorenporträt

Peter White is Herman C. Bernick Family Professor in Classics and the College at the University of Chicago. His previous books include Promised Verse, winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
I. Reading the Letters from the Outside In
1. Constraints and Biases in Roman Letter-Writing
2. The Editing of the Collection
3. Frames of the Letter
II. Epistolary Preoccupations
4. The Letters and Literature
5. Giving and Getting Advice by Letter
6. Letter-Writing and Leadership
Afterword: The Collection in Hindsight
Appendix 1: Quantifying the Letter Corpus
Appendix 2: Contemporary Works Mentioned in the Letters
Bibliography of Titles Cited