Ancient Letters
Classical and Late Antique Epistolography
Edited by Ruth Morello and A. D. Morrison
Table of Contents
Introduction: What is a letter?, R. K. Gibson & A. D. Morrison
1. Down among the documents: criticism and papyrus letters, G. O. Hutchinson
2. `... when who should walk into the room but': epistoliterarity in Cicero, Ad Qfr 3.1, John Henderson
3. Cicero's `stomach': political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Cicero's correspondence, Stanley E. Hoffer
4. Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's Epistles 1, A. D. Morrison
5. The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters, Brad Inwood
6. Letters of recommendation and the rhetoric of praise, Roger Rees
7. Confidence, inuidia, and Pliny's epistolary curriculum, Ruth Morello
8. The letter's the thing (in Pliny, Book 7), William Fitzgerald
9. The Epistula in ancient scientific and technical literature, with special reference to medicine, D. R. Langslow
10. Back to Fronto: doctor and patient in his correspondence with an emperor, Annelise Freisenbruch
11. Alciphron's epistolarity, Jason Konig
12. Better than speech: some advantages of the letter in the Second Sophistic, Owen Hodkinson
13. Mixed messages: the play of epistolary codes in two late antique Latin correspondences, Jennifer Ebbeler
14. St Patrick and the art of allusion, Andrew Fear