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Fictional letters were one of the favorite genres of the first centuries CE; about thirty such collections have been transmitted to us.Yet for a long time, scholars have not been too interested in these texts.To a large extent, this may be due to Bentley's famous destruction of the Letters of Phalaris. 1 Bentley made two main objections against such letters: they were morally reprehensible because their authors had tried to deceive their readers, and they were bad literature.Ever since, most scholars have considered the ancient fictional letters as forgeries, hence as ethically dubious products. 2 The last years, however, have witnessed a spectacular renaissance of these texts: new editions (some of them with scholarly commentaries) have made a number of the letter-collections available for scholarly work, most of them for the first time since Hercher's edition of 1873; two recent anthologies will finally make it possible to study Greek letters in the classroom, and Patricia Rosenmeyer's penetrating study offered the first sophisticated literary analysis of the genre to appear in many years. 3 The corpus of letters that will be the subject of this paper is still awaiting its rediscovery.There is no satisfactory modern edition of, 4 let alone scholarly commentary on Alciphron's writings.
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