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Ancient Greek letter writing : a cultural history (600 BC-150 BC) / Paola Ceccarelli.
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EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)Oxford Scholarship Online: Classical Studies Available online
Oxford Scholarship Online: Classical Studies- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ceccarelli, Paola.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Letter writing, Greek--History.
- Letter writing, Greek.
- Power (Social sciences)--Greece--History.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.
- Greece.
- Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (456 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- part I. Greek beginnings : writing and letter writing, evidence and representations
- part II. Letter writing and the polis.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-175717-9
- 0-19-166307-7
- OCLC:
- 867631037
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