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dc.contributor.authorKubina, Krystina
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-12T09:25:14Z
dc.date.available2021-07-12T09:25:14Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49976
dc.description.abstractLetters were an important medium of everyday communication in the ancient Mediterranean. Soon after its emergence, the epistolary form was adopted by educated elites and transformed into a literary genre, which developed distinctive markers and was used, for instance, to give political advice, to convey philosophical ideas, or to establish and foster ties with peers. A particular type of this genre is the letter cast in verse, or epistolary poem, which merges the form and function of the letter with stylistic elements of poetry. In Greek literature, epistolary poetry is first safely attested in the fourth century AD and would enjoy a lasting presence throughout the Byzantine and early modern periods. The present volume introduces the reader to this hitherto unexplored chapter of post-classical Greek literature through an anthology of exemplary epistolary poems in the original Greek with facing English translation. This collection, which covers a broad chronological range from late antique epigrams of the Greek Anthology to the poetry of western humanists, is accompanied by exegetical commentaries on the anthologized texts and by critical essays discussing questions of genre, literary composition, and historical and social contexts of selected epistolary poems.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticismen_US
dc.subject.otherLiterary Criticism, Mediterranean Literature, Poetry, Greek literatureen_US
dc.titleChapter 4 Functions of Letters in Verse and Proseen_US
dc.title.alternativeA Comparison of Manuel Philes and Theodore Hyrtakenosen_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9780429288296-6en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBookb24f1b0b-f8e8-4b6a-9f40-7f3d1325bd7fen_US
oapen.relation.isFundedBy0bdd30b8-28cc-4e2d-bd69-6cabb77b36d4en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780367255312en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780367759971en_US
oapen.collectionAustrian Science Fund (FWF)en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages14en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Austrian Academy of Sciences


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