Cicero in letters : epistolary relations of the late republic / Peter White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Peter, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin letters--History and criticism.

Latin letters.

Statesmen--Rome--Correspondence--History and criticism.

Statesmen.

Letter writing, Latin--History--To 1500.

Letter writing, Latin.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Correspondence.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Contemporaries--Correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than 800 letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Part I: Reading the Letters from the Outside In""; ""1. Constraints and Biases in Roman Letter Writing""; ""2. The Editing of the Collection""; ""3. Frames of the Letter""; ""Part II: Epistolary Preoccupations""; ""4. The Letters and Literature""; ""5. Giving and Getting Advice by Letter""; ""6. Letter Writing and Leadership""; ""Afterword: The Collection in Hindsight""; ""Appendix 1: Quantifying the Letter Corpus""; ""Appendix 2: Contemporary Works Mentioned in the Letters""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Persons""; ""Index of Passages""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-19-988918-X

0-19-991434-6

1-282-69834-6

9786612698347

0-19-975057-2

OCLC:

650562861