Epistolary narratives in ancient Greek literature / edited by Owen Hodkinson, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, Evelien Bracke.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne supplements ; volume 359
• TeilnehmendeR: Hodkinson, Owen, 1979-; Rosenmeyer, Patricia A.; Bracke, Evelien.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 359.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Front Matter /; Introduction /; The Appearance of Letters on Stages and Vases /; “Baleful Signs”: Letters and Deceit in Herodotus /; Letters in Xenophon /; Narrative and Epistolarity in the ‘Platonic’ Epistles /; Epistolary Epicureans /; The Letters of Euripides /; Addressing Power: Fictional Letters Between Alexander and Darius /; Alciphron and the Sympotic Letter Tradition /; Lucian’s Saturnalian Epistolarity /; Odysseus’ Letter to Calypso in Lucian’s Verae Historiae /; Yours Truly? Letters in Achilles Tatius /; Letters in Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana /; Love from Beyond the Grave: The Epistolary Ghost-Story in Phlegon of Tralles /; Epistolarity and Narrative in ps.-Aeschines Epistle 10 /; Letters in the War between Rome and Judaea /; The Function of the Letter Form in Christian Martyrdom Accounts: “I would like my community, my Church, my family, to remember” /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004253033
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Owen Hodkinson, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, Evelien Bracke.

The literary letter was one of the most versatile and popular forms of writing in Greek antiquity, yet one of the least widely studied today. The use of the letter within narrative or as narrative medium is something which the Ancient Greek literary tradition established as central to the western world (especially through the letters of Plato, Hippocrates and the Christian epistolographers). This volume presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary letter collections. By comparison of the various narrative strategies taken within Greek epistolary texts across a range of genres, cultural backgrounds, and time periods, the volume takes a significant step towards the appreciation of Greek epistolary collections as a unique literary phenomenon.