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Ancient Greek Literary Letters - Selections in Translation (Paperback, New Ed)
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Ancient Greek Literary Letters - Selections in Translation (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Routledge Classical Translations
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What was it about epistolarity that appealed so strongly to the
Greek imagination?
The first reference in Greek literature to a letter occurs in our
oldest extant Greek poem, Homer's Iliad. But letters can be found
lurking in every corner of ancient Greek writing. This book aims to
bring the literary letters themselves into clear view for
contemporary readers. Many ancient writers included letters in
other narrative genres: Euripides brought letters on stage;
historians included letters as documents; Greek novelists sprinkled
their stories with letters exchanged between separated lovers; and
epigrammatists played with the epigram as letter. By the second and
third centuries CE, many centuries after Homer's epics, imaginative
letters evolved into an established genre in their own right:
Aelian and Alciphron excelled in epistolary impersonations,
imitating the voices of the lower classes, and collecting their
letters in anthologies; Philostratus emerged as a master of
epistolary spin, taking one theme and subtly tweaking it in half a
dozen letters to different addressees; and anonymous writers
competed with one another in their particular form of ghostwriting
for the rich and famous.
Arranged chronologically, with introductory sections for each time
period, this book studies this wide range of writers, genres and
literary levels and suggests that there is more to a letter than
just the information it communicates. Epistolary context is just as
important as content, as will be rediscovered by Ovid, Richardson,
Laclos, and a whole host of later European writers. Patricia A.
Rosenmeyer has chosen a highly entertaining selection, which
include translation of previously inaccessible oruntranslated
works, and deftly opens up a neglected area of study to provide an
enjoyable and significant survey for students of Greek
epistolography.
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