Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300
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 rem...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-528482022-01-31T11:51:09Z Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 Sarri, Antonia DE1-100 Graeco-Roman Egypt papyrus Letters Epistolography 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. 2021-02-11T18:54:04Z 2021-02-11T18:54:04Z 2018-02-19 18:00:14 2018 book 25454 2198-6940 9783110423488 9783110426953 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/52848 eng Materiale Textkulturen [Material Text Cultures] image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110426953 De Gruyter 10.1515/9783110426953 10.1515/9783110426953 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 9783110423488 9783110426953 viii, 388 open access |
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| title | Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 |
| title_full | Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 |
| title_fullStr | Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 |
| title_short | Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 |
| title_sort | material aspects of letter writing in the graeco roman world c 500 bc c ad 300 |
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