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Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World, 500 BC – AD 300

By Antonia Sarri

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2017
ISBN
3110426943, 9783110426946
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8475854 bytes)
Series
Materiale Textkulturen 12
Pages
viii+388\397
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2018-05-13 15:49:01
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Description

Ancient letters had formatting and stylistic conventions that were carefully respected by their writers. This book provides the first comprehensive study of these conventions based on a wide corpus of letters surviving on their original material substrates primarily from Graeco-Roman Egypt. It elucidates and contextualises the impact of sociocultural phenomena on stylistic variations over a long period in the history ofepistolary practice.

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