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Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide

Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide

Sogno, Cristiana
Storin, Bradley K.
Watts, Edward J.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismAncient History General

ISBN10: 0520281446
ISBN13: 9780520281448
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Dec 6 2016
Pages: 488
Weight: 2.25
Height: 1.50 Width: 7.20 Depth: 10.10
Language: English
Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300-600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.

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