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Epistolary narratives in ancient Greek literature / edited by Owen Hodkinson, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, Evelien Bracke
- Published
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Physical Description
- xi, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Hodkinson, Owen, 1979-, Rosenmeyer, Patricia A., and Bracke, Evelien
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I EPISTOLARY FORMS: LETTERS IN NARRATIVE, LETTERS AS NARRATIVE -- A.Epistolary Writing in Extended Narratives: Letters in Euripides, Herodotus, and Xenophon -- The Appearance of Letters on Stages and Vases / Patricia A. Rosenmeyer -- "Baleful Signs": Letters and Deceit in Herodotus / Angus Bowie -- Letters in Xenophon / Deborah Levine Gera -- B.Correspondences of Historical Figures: Authentic and Pseudonymous -- Narrative and Epistolarity in the `Platonic' Epistles / A.D. Morrison -- Epistolary Epicureans / Pamela Gordon -- The Letters of Euripides / Orlando Poltera -- pt. II INNOVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION IN EPISTOLARY NARRATIVES -- A.Epistolarity and Other Narrative Forms: Generic Hybridity -- Addressing Power: Fictional Letters between Alexander and Darius / Tim Whitmarsh -- Alciphron and the Sympotic Letter Tradition / Jason Konig -- Lucian's Saturnalian Epistolarity / Niall Slater -- B.Embedded Letters in Longer Fictions -- Odysseus' Letter to Calypso in Lucian's Verae Historiae / Silvio F. Bar -- Yours Truly? Letters in Achilles Tatius / Ian Repath -- Letters in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana / Dimitri Kasprzyk -- C.Short Stories in Epistolary Form -- Love from beyond the Grave: The Epistolary Ghost-Story in Phlegon of Tralles / J.R. Morgan -- Epistolarity and Narrative in Ps.-Aeschines Epistle 10 / Owen Hodkinson -- pt. III JEWISH AND EARLY CHRISTIAN EPISTOLARY NARRATIVES -- Letters in the War between Rome and Judaea / Ryan S. Olson -- The Function of the Letter Form in Christian Martyrdom Accounts / Jane McLarty.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9789004249608 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004249605 (hardback : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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