The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome : Friendship in Cicero's Ad Familiares and Seneca's Moral Epistles.
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TextSeries: Wisconsin Studies in Classics SeriesPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (244 pages)Content type: - text
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae ad familiares
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Correspondence--Criticism and interpretation
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.--Correspondence--Criticism and interpretation
- Authors, Latin--Correspondence
- Latin letters--History and criticism
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- PA6298
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.
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