Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World : : c. 500 BC - c. AD 300 / / Antonia Sarri.

Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have rem...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2018
2017
Language:English
Series:Materiale Textkulturen
Physical Description:1 online resource (396 p.)
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