- Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 435 pages) : map.
- Uniform Title
- Ancient Greek letter writing (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Ancient Greek letter writing (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-413), appendices, and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Ancient Greek letters : an introduction -- Greek beginnings : writing and letter writing, evidence and representation. Writing and letter writing : the evidence -- Writing and letter writing : representations -- When a letter and why? : Narrative strategies in the ancient historians -- Letter writing and the polis. Writing and letter writing on the Athenian dramatic stage -- Letters on the legal and political stage -- Poleis and kings, letters and decrees : official communication in the Hellenistic period -- Appendices. Archaic and classical documentary letters -- Ancient traditions on the invention of writing -- Official letters sent by Greek poleis or koina and inscribed on stone, in chronological order.
- LCCN
- 2013938774
- OCLC
- ssj0001152564
- Author
Ceccarelli, Paola, 1962-
- Title
Ancient Greek letter writing [electronic resource] : a cultural history (600 BC-150 BC) / Paola Ceccarelli.
- Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-413), appendices, and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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