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Cicero in Letters : Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic by Peter White is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Cicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond. The collection also includes some one hundred letters by Cicero's contemporaries. The letters they exchanged provide unique insight into the experience of the Roman political class at the turning point between Republican and imperial rule. The first part of this study analyzes effects of the milieu in which the letters were written. The lack of an organized postal system limited the correspondence that Cicero and his contemporaries could conduct and influenced what they were willing to write about. Their chief motive for exchanging letters was to protect political relationships until they could resume their customary, face-to-face association in Rome. Romans did not normally sign letters, much less write them in their own hand. Their correspondence was handled by agents who drafted, expedited, and interpreted it. Yet every letter advertised the level of intimacy that bound the writer and the addressee. Fin

Who reads Cicero in Letters : Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic?

Author

Peter White

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199889181

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, History, Literary Fiction