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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Owen Hodkinson , Patricia Rosenmeyer , Evelien BrackePublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 359 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.753kg ISBN: 9789004249608ISBN 10: 9004249605 Pages: 412 Publication Date: 30 May 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Language: eng, grc Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction, Owen Hodkinson and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer I. Epistolary Forms: Letters in Narrative, Letters as Narrative A. Epistolary Writing in Extended Narratives: Letters in Euripides, Herodotus, and Xenophon 1) The Appearance of Letters on Stages and Vases, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer 2) Letters in Herodotus, Angus Bowie 3) Letters in Xenophon, Deborah Gera B. Correspondences of Historical Figures: Authentic and Pseudonymous 4) Narrative and Epistolarity in the `Platonic' Epistles, Andrew D. Morrison 5) Epistolary Epicureans, Pamela Gordon 6) The Letters of Euripides, Orlando Poltera II. Innovation and Experimentation in Epistolary Narratives A. Epistolarity and Other Narrative Forms: Generic Hybridity 7) Addressing Power: Fictional Letters Between Alexander and Darius, Tim Whitmarsh 8) Alciphron and the Sympotic Letter Tradition, Jason Koenig 9) Lucian's Saturnalian Epistolarity, Niall Slater B. Embedded Letters in Longer Fictions 10) Odysseus' Letter to Kalypso in Lucian's Verae Historiae, Silvio F. Bar 11) Yours Truly? Letters in Achilles Tatius, Ian Repath 12) Letters in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Dimitri Kasprzyk C. Short Stories in Epistolary Form 13) The Epistolary Ghost Story in Phlegon of Tralles, John Morgan 14) Epistolarity and Narrative in ps.-Aeschines Epistle 10, Owen Hodkinson III. Jewish and Early Christian Epistolary Narratives 15) Letters in the War between Rome and Judaea, Ryan Olson 16) The Function of the Letter Form in Christian Martyrdom Accounts, Jane Mclarty Bibliography IndicesReviews[T]he volume has the potential to draw the attention of ancient historians working on texts as diverse and chronologically separate as Herodotus and Josephus to the importance of letters embedded in historiographical narratives, and it sheds innovative light on late antique martyrdom accounts cast in the form of a letter. Lieve Van Hoof, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.08.47. Author InformationOwen Hodkinson, D.Phil. (2009), Oxford University, is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. He has published several articles on Greek epistolary literature, and a monograph on Philostratus: Authority and Tradition in Philostratus' Heroikos (Pensa Multimedia, 2011). Patricia Rosenmeyer, Ph.D. (1987), Princeton University, is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin. She has published widely on Greek poetry, and two books on epistolary fiction: Ancient Epistolary Fictions (Cambridge, 2001) and Ancient Greek Literary Letters (Routledge, 2006). Evelien Bracke, Ph.D. (2009), National University of Ireland, Maynooth, is currently the Latin and Greek tutor at Swansea University. Contributors: Silvio Bar, Angus Bowie, Deborah Gera, Pamela Gordon, Owen Hodkinson, Dmitri Kasprzyk, Jason Koenig, Jane McLarty, John Morgan, A.D. Morrison, Ryan Olson, Orlando Poltera, Ian Repath, P.A. Rosenmeyer, Niall Slater, Tim Whitmarsh Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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