TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosenmeyer, Patricia A.
AB  - The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the works of historians but they also formed the basis of works of fiction, and the formal substructure for many kinds of poem.         Patricia Rosenmeyer, an authority on the history of the Greek letter, assembles in this book a representative selection of such 'literary letters', from Aelian and Alciphron to Philostrartus and the supposed letters of Themistocles.         The book will be valuable for all students of Greek literature especially those studying Greek (and Latin) letter.
DO  - 10.4324/9780203964781
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1005822
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135849259
KW  - epistolary
KW  - novella
KW  - iphigenia
KW  - aulis
KW  - tauris
KW  - pseudonymous
KW  - collection
KW  - achilles
KW  - tatius
KW  - exchange
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/205b3b0b-ec47-40e7-aec0-c59123665903/1005822.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24309
PB  - Taylor & Francis
PY  - 2006
SN  - 9780415285506;9780415285513;9781134451050;9781134451043;9781134451005
TI  - Ancient Greek Literary Lettersnull
ER  - 
