Ancient Love Letters : : Form, Themes, Approaches /

Ancient Love Letters : : Form, Themes, Approaches / / ed. by Anna Tiziana Drago, Owen Hodkinson.

This volume investigates the form of love letters and erotic letters in Greek and Latin up to the 7th Century CE, encompassing both literary and documentary letters (the latter inscribed and on papyrus), and prose and poetry. The potential for, and utility of treating this large and diverse corpus a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bowie, Ewen,
Chadha, Zara,
Del Corso, Lucio,
Drago, Anna Tiziana,
Funke, Melissa,
Gallé Cejudo, Rafael J.,
Hodkinson, Owen,
Marquis, Émeline,
Morrison, A.D.,
Nilsson, Ingela,
Pontoropoulos, Antonios,
Rosenmeyer, Patricia A.,
Smith, Steven D.,
HerausgeberIn:
Drago, Anna Tiziana,
Hodkinson, Owen,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 331 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 The ‘Grammar’ of the Epistolary Genre: Structural Perspectives
  • Chapter 1 Greco-Roman Love Letters and Modern Genre Theory
  • Chapter 2 Mapping Some of the Generic Borders of the Greek Love Letter
  • Chapter 3 The Body and the Letter
  • Chapter 4 Letters Before Letters
  • Part 2 Intertextuality: Literary Models, Topoi, Conventions, Imitative Strategies
  • Chapter 5 Lookin’ for Love (in Plato’s Epistles)
  • Chapter 6 The Structure and Ordering of the Philostratean Love Letters
  • Chapter 7 Hyperliterarity, Intertextuality and Formalized Erotic Language. The Letters of Aristaenetus
  • Chapter 8 Philostratus’ Erotic Epistles and Latin Elegy Revisited
  • Chapter 9 Sealed with a Curse: Elegy, Epistolography, and Magic Ritual in Ovid Heroides 6
  • Part 3 Cultural Issues and Backgrounds
  • Chapter 10 Alciphron: The Erotic Letters in the Spotlight
  • Chapter 11 Epistolarity, Eroticism, and Agency: The Female Voice in Fictional Greek Love Letters
  • Chapter 12 Is Diogenes in Love with a Eunuch? The Destabilising Power of Erōs in the Letters of Theophylact Simocatta
  • Chapter 13 In a Sentimental Mood? Love, Sex, Marriage (and Other Catastrophes) in Personal Letters (and Everyday Documents) from Graeco-Roman Egypt
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index Nominum
  • Index Rerum
  • Index Locorum

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