The gift of correspondence in classical Rome [electronic resource] : friendship in Cicero's Ad familiares and Seneca's Moral epistles / Amanda Wilcox.

Author
Wilcox, Amanda [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.
Description
1 online resource (244 p.)

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Subject(s)
Series
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Cicero - The Social Life of Letters
  • 1. Euphemism and Its Limits
  • 2. Consolation and Competition
  • 3. Absence and Increase
  • 4. Recommendation
  • Part Two: Seneca - Commercium Epistularum: The Gift Refigured
  • 5. From Practice to Metaphor
  • 6. Rehabilitating Friendship
  • 7. Redefining Identity: Persons, Letters, Friends
  • 8. Consolation and Community
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Index Locorum.
ISBN
  • 0-299-28833-1
  • 1-283-69219-8
OCLC
  • 813392075
  • 927484117
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