By Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
ISBN-10: 041528550X
ISBN-13: 9780415285506
ISBN-10: 0415285518
ISBN-13: 9780415285513
The first referenece to letter writing happens within the first textual content of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very starting, Greeks have been enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing turned a unique literary style. Letters have been integrated within the works of historians yet additionally they shaped the foundation of works of fiction, and the formal substructure for plenty of forms of poem.
Patricia Rosenmeyer, an expert at the historical past of the Greek letter, assembles during this e-book a consultant collection of such 'literary letters', from Aelian and Alciphron to Philostrartus and the meant letters of Themistocles.
The e-book could be useful for all scholars of Greek literature specifically these learning Greek (and Latin) letter.
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