Ancient Greek Letter Writing

Author : Paola Ceccarelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199675597
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ancient Greek Letter Writing written by Paola Ceccarelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134451059
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ancient Greek Literary Letters written by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 CLASSICAL GREEK LITERARY LETTERS -- chapter 2 HELLENISTIC LITERARY LETTERS -- chapter 3 Letters and prose fictions of the Second Sophistic -- chapter 4 THE EPISTOLARY NOVELLA -- chapter 5 PSEUDO-HISTORICAL LETTER COLLECTIONS OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC -- chapter 6 INVENTED CORRESPONDENCES, IMAGINARY VOICES.

Author : Stanley K. Stowers
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664250157
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity written by Stanley K. Stowers and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making use of letters--both formal and personal--that have been preserved through the ages, Stanley Stowers analyzes the cultural setting within which Christianity arose. The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113416601X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World written by John Muir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of Greek letter writing from a well-known and respected author introduces students to the whole range of letter writing in the Greek world, and its problems. Greeks wrote letters to each other for business and diplomatic purposes, as teacher to pupil, and as addresses to the wider world.

Author : Joshua Rudder
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781452870359
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Learn to Write Ancient Greek written by Joshua Rudder and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This workbook eases you into the complexities of writing Ancient Greek. You will learn to write Greek starting with the individual letters of the Greek alphabet. You will build syllables out of the Greek letters and create whole words from those syllables. Finally, you will put Greek words together in phrases, sentences and even paragraphs. All along the way, the workbook offers ample opportunity and space to practice writing Greek. A range of exercises and copy practice cover all the letter forms, diacritic combinations (including accents and breathings) and punctuation required to read Greek. Practice pages give Greek and English names of letters and characters, standard pronunciation and transcription, and the number and direction of pen strokes needed to compose each character. The appendix introduces three other historical Greek scripts and provides answers to every exercise. Includes a thorough table of contents and short index.

Author : Antonia Sarri
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110423480
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World written by Antonia Sarri and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World.

Author : Mary Norris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324001283
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen written by Mary Norris and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea. In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self-expression, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek. Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris’s lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, goes searching for the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English. Filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine—and more than a few Greek men—Greek to Me is the Comma Queen’s fresh take on Greece and the exotic yet strangely familiar language that so deeply influences our own.

Author : Lutz Doering
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161522369
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography written by Lutz Doering and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2012 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides the most extensive analysis available of ancient Jewish letter writing from the Persian period until the early rabbinic literature. In addition, he demonstrates the significance of Jewish letters for the development of early Christian letter writing.

Author : Barry B. Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521589079
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet written by Barry B. Powell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenging and fascinating enquiry into the genesis of alphabetic writing.

Author : Owen Hodkinson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004253033
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature written by Owen Hodkinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.