Beschreibung:
Paola Ceccarelli is Fellow in Classics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Her research interests range from ancient dance and theatre to ancient historiography and epistolary writing.
Ceccarelli offers a history of the development of letter writing in ancient Greece from the archaic to the early Hellenistic period. Highlighting the specificity of letter-writing, the volume looks at documentary letters and traces the role of embedded letters in the texts of the ancient historians, in drama, and in the speeches of the orators.
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