Synopses & Reviews
The seventy-eight letters in this Anthology are selected both for their intrinsic interest and to illustrate the range of functions letters performed in the ancient world. Dating from between c.500 BC and c.400 AD, they include naive and high-style, "real" and "fictitious", and classical and patristic items.
Synopsis
Anthology of Greek and Latin letters with facing-page English translation, full commentary and introduction.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-342) and indexes.
Synopsis
Numerous letters survive from the ancient world. Their range is similarly wide: official and private, literary and non-literary, philosophical and mundane. Some were written by well-known literary figures, such as Ovid and Pliny, others were written by kings and emperors, while many survive from the pens of otherwise anonymous figures from the provinces. This volume provides a selection, with translation, aimed at illustrating this wide range and throws light on many aspects of ancient life as well as providing a useful collection of material for those interested in ancient epistolography.
About the Author
Michael Trapp is Reader in Greek in the Department of Classics, King's College London. He is the author of the Dialexeis of Maximus of Tyre.
Table of Contents
Introduction; A. Private letters (1-60); B. Public life and official correspondence (61-70); C. Embedded letters (71-2); D. Epistolary theory (73-6); Commentary.