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Evelien Bracke, Ph.D. (2009), National University of Ireland,

Maynooth, is currently the Latin and Greek tutor at Swansea
University.

This book is volume 359 in the series

ISBN: 978-90-04-24960-8

Mnemosyne supplements.
ISSN 0169-8958
brill.com/mns

9 789004 249608

Epistolary
Narratives
in Ancient
Greek
Literature
Edited by
Owen Hodkinson

Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Evelien Bracke

M n e mo s y n e s u ppl e m e n t s Monogr a ph s on Gr e e k a n d l at i n L a nguage a n d l i t e r at u r e

Patricia Rosenmeyer, Ph.D. (1987), Princeton University,

is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin. She has
published widely on Greek poetry, and two books on epistolary
fiction: Ancient Epistolary Fictions (Cambridge, 2001) and Ancient
Greek Literary Letters (Routledge, 2006).

Owen Hodkinson, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer & Evelien Bracke (Eds.)

Contributors: Silvio Br, Angus Bowie, Deborah Gera, Pamela

Gordon, Owen Hodkinson, Dimitri Kasprzyk, Jason Knig, Jane
McLarty, John Morgan, A.D. Morrison, Ryan Olson, Orlando Poltera,
Ian Repath, P.A. Rosenmeyer, Niall Slater, and Tim Whitmarsh.

Owen Hodkinson, D.Phil. (2009), Oxford University, is Lecturer
in Classics at the University of Leeds. He has published several
articles on Greek epistolary literature, and a monograph on
Philostratus: Authority and Tradition in Philostratus Heroikos
(Pensa Multimedia, 2011).

Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature

The literary letter was one of the most versatile and popular forms
of writing in Greek antiquity, yet one of the least widely studied
today. The use of the letter within narrative or as narrative medium
is something which the Ancient Greek literary tradition established
as central to the western world (especially through the letters of
Plato, Hippocrates and the Christian epistolographers). This volume
presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary
letter collections. By comparison of the various narrative strategies
taken within Greek epistolary texts across a range of genres, cultural
backgrounds, and time periods, the volume takes a significant step
towards the appreciation of Greek epistolary collections as a unique
literary phenomenon.