Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World : C. 500 BC – C. AD 300
Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have rem...
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De Gruyter
2018
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