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The gift of correspondence in classical Rome : friendship in Cicero's Ad familiares and Seneca's Moral epistles / Amanda Wilcox.
LIBRA PA6298 .W58 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilcox, Amanda.
- Series:
- Wisconsin studies in classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae ad familiares.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Correspondence--Criticism and interpretation.
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Epistulae morales ad Lucilium.
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D--Correspondence--Criticism and interpretation.
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Authors, Latin--Correspondence.
- Latin letters--History and criticism.
- Latin letters.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 223 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Cicero: The Social Life of Letters
- 1 Euphemism and Its Limits 25
- 2 Consolation and Competition 40
- 3 Absence and Increase 64
- 4 Recommendation 79
- Part 2 Seneca: Commercium Epistularum: The Gift Refigured
- 5 From Practice to Metaphor 99
- 6 Rehabilitating Friendship 115
- 7 Redefining Identity: Persons, Letters, Friends 132
- 8 Consolation and Community 157.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780299288341
- 029928834X
- 9780299288334
- 0299288331
- OCLC:
- 757935812
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