TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kubina,Krystina
AU  - Riehle,A.
TI  - Epistolary poetry in byzantium and beyond: an anthology with critical essays 
SN  - 9780429288296
AV  - PA3611.A1 
U1  - 881.008 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Greek letters
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Epistolary poetry, Greek
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Greece
KW  - In literature
N2  - 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 convey philosophical ideas, or to establish and foster ties with peers. A particular type of this genre is the letter cast in verse, or epistolary poem, which merges the form and function of the letter with stylistic elements of poetry. In Greek literature, epistolary poetry is first safely attested in the fourth centuryAD and would enjoy a lasting presence throughout the Byzantine and early modern periods.The present volume introduces the reader to this hitherto unexplored chapter of post-classical Greek literature through an anthology of exemplary epistolary poems in the original Greek with facing English translation. This collection, which covers a broad chronological range from late antique epigrams of the Greek Anthology to the poetry of western humanists, is accompanied by exegetical commentaries on the anthologized texts and by critical essays discussing questions of genre, literary composition, and historical and social contexts of selected epistolary poems
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429288296
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -