Late Antique Letter Collections : A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide / Cristiana Sogno, Bradley K. Storin, Edward J. Watts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sogno, Cristiana, Editor.

Storin, Bradley K., Editor.

Watts, Edward J., 1975- Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical letters--History and criticism.

Classical letters.

Letter writing, Classical.

Civilization, Classical, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (487 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300-600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Greek and Latin Epistolography and Epistolary Collections in Late Antiquity

How to Use This Book

One. Latin Letter Collections before Late Antiquity

Two. Greek Letter Collections before Late Antiquity

Three. The Letter Collection of the Emperor Julian

Four. The Letter Collection of Basil of Caesarea

Five. The Letter Collection of Gregory of Nazianzus

Six. The Letter Collection of Gregory of Nyssa

Seven. The Letter Collection of Libanius of Antioch

Eight. The Letter Collection of Ausonius

Nine. The Letter Collection of Ambrose of Milan

Ten. The Letter Collection of Evagrius of Pontus

Eleven. The Letter Collection of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

Twelve. The Letter Collection of John Chrysostom

Thirteen. The Letter Collection of Synesius of Cyrene

Fourteen. The Letter Collections of Jerome of Stridon

Fifteen. The Letter Collection of Augustine of Hippo

Sixteen. The Letter Collection of Paulinus of Nola

Seventeen. The Letter Collection of Theodoret of Cyrrhus

Eighteen. The Letter Collection of Isidore of Pelusium

Nineteen. The Letter Collection of Sidonius Apollinaris

Twenty. The Letter Collection of Ruricius of Limoges

Twenty-One. The Letter Collection of Avitus of Vienne

Twenty-Two. The Letter Collection of Ennodius of Pavia

Twenty-Three. The Letter Collection of Aeneas of Gaza

Twenty-Four. The Letter Collection of Procopius of Gaza

Twenty-Five. The Letter Collection of Barsanuphius and John

Twenty-Six. The Letter Collection of Cassiodorus

Twenty-Seven. Papal Letters and Letter Collections

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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ISBN:

9780520966192

0520966198

OCLC:

948669677