TY - BOOK ID - 23666846 TI - Late Antique Letter Collections : A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide AU - Sogno, Cristiana AU - Storin, Bradley K. AU - Watts, Edward J. PY - 2016 SN - 9780520281448 0520281446 9780520308411 9780520966192 0520966198 0520308417 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Classical letters. KW - Classical letters KW - Letter writing, Classical. KW - Civilization, Classical, in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Letter writing, Classical KW - Civilization, Classical, in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Classical letter writing KW - Classical literature KW - Classical letters - History and criticism KW - Lettres KW - Collections KW - 4th century. KW - 5th century. KW - 6th century. KW - ancient greece. KW - ancient rome. KW - ancient texts. KW - ancient world. KW - anthology. KW - classicists. KW - classics. KW - correspondence. KW - extant greek. KW - extant latin. KW - historian. KW - history. KW - international. KW - late antiquity. KW - letter collection. KW - letters. KW - literary genres. KW - literary history. KW - literary letters. KW - literary. KW - religious scholars. KW - religious studies. KW - scholar. KW - social history. KW - social studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23666846 AB - Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300-600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries. ER -