Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography

Abstract

Introduction: What is a letter? 1. Down among the documents: criticism and papyrus letters 2. '... when who should walk into the room but': epistoliterarity in Cicero, Ad Qfr 3.1 3. Cicero's 'stomach': political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Cicero's correspondence 4. Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's Epistles 1 5. The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters 6. Letters of recommendation and the rhetoric of praise 7. Confidence, inuidia, and Pliny's epistolary curriculum 8. The letter's the thing (in Pliny, Book 7) 9. The Epistula in ancient scientific and technical literature, with special reference to medicine 10. Back to Fronto: doctor and patient in his correspondence with an emperor 11. Alciphron's epistolarity 12. Better than speech: some advantages of the letter in the Second Sophistic 13. Mixed messages: the play of epistolary codes in two late antique Latin correspondences 14. St Patrick and the art of allusion

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