Title: Ancient Greek Letter Writing A Cultural History 600 Bc150 Bc
Description: Ceccarelli offers a history of the development of letter writing in ancient Greece from the archaic to the early Hellenistic period. Highlighting the specificity of letter-writing, the volume looks at documentary letters and traces the role of embedded letters in the texts of the ancient historians, in drama, and in the speeches of the orators.
Subjects: Greece, politics and government, Letter writing, Power (social sciences), Greece, civilization, to 146 b.c., Greek Letter writing, History, Politics and government, Civilization, Littérature épistolaire antique, Civilisation, Politique et gouvernement, Political science, Greek letters, History and criticism