Late Antique Letter Collections

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Late Antique Letter Collections is written by Cristiana Sogno and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520308417 (ISBN 10) and 9780520308411 (ISBN 13).

Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.