Late Antique Letter Collections
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Late Antique Letter Collections

A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide

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  2. English
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Late Antique Letter Collections

A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide

About this book

Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.

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Yes, you can access Late Antique Letter Collections by Cristiana Sogno, Bradley K. Storin, Edward J. Watts, Cristiana Sogno,Bradley K. Storin,Edward J. Watts in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Ancient History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780520308411
eBook ISBN
9780520966192
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Late Antique Letter Collections
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Introduction: Greek and Latin Epistolography and Epistolary Collections in Late Antiquity
  9. How to Use This Book
  10. 1. Latin Letter Collections before Late Antiquity
  11. 2. Greek Letter Collections before Late Antiquity
  12. 3. The Letter Collection of the Emperor Julian
  13. 4. The Letter Collection of Basil of Caesarea
  14. 5. The Letter Collection of Gregory of Nazianzus
  15. 6. The Letter Collection of Gregory of Nyssa
  16. 7. The Letter Collection of Libanius of Antioch
  17. 8. The Letter Collection of Ausonius
  18. 9. The Letter Collection of Ambrose of Milan
  19. 10. The Letter Collection of Evagrius of Pontus
  20. 11. The Letter Collection of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
  21. 12. The Letter Collection of John Chrysostom
  22. 13. The Letter Collection of Synesius of Cyrene
  23. 14. The Letter Collections of Jerome of Stridon
  24. 15. The Letter Collection of Augustine of Hippo
  25. 16. The Letter Collection of Paulinus of Nola
  26. 17. The Letter Collection of Theodoret of Cyrrhus
  27. 18. The Letter Collection of Isidore of Pelusium
  28. 19. The Letter Collection of Sidonius Apollinaris
  29. 20. The Letter Collection of Ruricius of Limoges
  30. 21. The Letter Collection of Avitus of Vienne
  31. 22. The Letter Collection of Ennodius of Pavia
  32. 23. The Letter Collection of Aeneas of Gaza
  33. 24. The Letter Collection of Procopius of Gaza
  34. 25. The Letter Collection of Barsanuphius and John
  35. 26. The Letter Collection of Cassiodorus
  36. 27. Papal Letters and Letter Collections
  37. List of Contributors
  38. Index