Greek and Roman Letters: An Anthology with Translation
The 78 letters in this Anthology (41 Greek, 36 Latin and 1 bilingual, with facing English translation) are selected both for their intrinsic interest, and to illustrate the range of functions letters performed in the ancient world. Dating from between c. 500 BC and c. 400 AD, they include naive and high-style, 'real' and 'fictitious', and classical and patristic items: Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Seneca, Pliny, Julian, Basil and Augustine are juxtaposed with Phalaris, Diogenes, Chion, and the...
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Anthology of Greek and Latin letters with facing-page English translation, full commentary and introduction.
Introduction; A. Private letters (1-60); B. Public life and official correspondence (61-70); C. Embedded letters (71-2); D. Epistolary theory (73-6); Commentary.
