Chapter 4 Functions of Letters in Verse and Prose A Comparison of Manuel Philes and Theodore Hyrtakenos
Letters were an important medium of everyday communication in the ancient Mediterranean. Soon after its emergence, the epistolary form was adopted by educated elites and transformed into a literary genre, which developed distinctive markers and was used, for instance, to give political advice, to co...
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2021
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