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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Epistolary Narratives presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary letter collections across a range of genres, cultural backgrounds, and time periods, leading collectively towards a better appreciation of Greek epistolary collections as a unique literary phenomenon.

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Acknowledgements; Owen Hodkinson and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer -- Introduction; PART I. EPISTOLARY FORMS: LETTERS IN NARRATIVE, LETTERS AS NARRATIVE. A. Epistolary Writing in Extended Narratives: Letters in Euripides, Herodotus, Xenophon; Patricia A. Rosenmeyer -- The Appearance of Letters on Stages and Vases; Angus Bowie -- ""Baleful Signs"": Letters and Deceit in Herodotus; Deborah Levine Gera -- Letters in Xenophon; PART I. EPISTOLARY FORMS: LETTERS IN NARRATIVE, LETTERS AS NARRATIVE. B. Correspondences of Historical Figures: Authentic and Pseudonymous.

A.D. Morrison -- Narrative and Epistolarity in the 'Platonic' EpistlesPamela Gordon -- Epistolary Epicureans; Orlando Poltera -- The Letters of Euripides; PART II. INNOVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION IN EPISTOLARY NARRATIVES. A. Epistolarity and Other Narrative Forms: Generic Hybridity; Tim Whitmarsh -- Addressing Power: Fictional Letters Between Alexander and Darius; Jason Koenig -- Alciphron and the Sympotic Letter Tradition; Niall Slater -- Lucian's Saturnalian Epistolarity; PART II. INNOVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION IN EPISTOLARY NARRATIVES. B. Embedded Letters in Longer Fictions.

Silvio F. Baer -- Odysseus' Letter to Calypso in Lucian's Verae HistoriaeIan Repath -- Yours Truly? Letters in Achilles Tatius; Dimitri Kasprzyk -- Letters in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana; PART II. INNOVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION IN EPISTOLARY NARRATIVES. C. Short Stories in Epistolary Form; J.R. Morgan -- Love from Beyond the Grave: The Epistolary Ghost-Story in Phlegon of Tralles; Owen Hodkinson -- Epistolarity and Narrative in ps.-Aeschines Epistle 10; PART III. JEWISH AND EARLY CHRISTIAN EPISTOLARY NARRATIVES; Ryan S. Olson -- Letters in the War between Rome and Judaea.

Jane McLarty -- The Function of the Letter Form in Christian Martyrdom Accounts: ÒI would like my community, my Church, my family, to rememberÓBibliography; Index.

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