Letter Writing in Greco-Roman AntiquityWestminster John Knox Press, 1 janv. 1986 - 188 pages Making use of letters--both formal and personal--that have been preserved through the ages, Stanley Stowers analyzes the cultural setting within which Christianity arose. The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed. |
Table des matières
Foreword by Wayne A Meeks | 9 |
GrecoRoman Letter Writing | 15 |
Letter Writing and GrecoRoman Society | 27 |
Philosophy and Character Formation | 36 |
Types of Letters | 49 |
Notes | 175 |
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admonition ancient antiquity Apollonius Apollonius of Tyana apologetic Augustine Basil behavior bishop brother character characteristic church Cicero classical common Corinthians Crates culture Cynic Epistles death Deissmann Demetrius Dio Chrysostom Diogenes early Christian letters Epicurus epideictic epistolary evil example Farewell father fifth centuries Fourth century C.E. friendly letter Fronto genre give gods Greco-Roman greeting Gregory of Nazianzus Gregory of Nyssa grief honor hortatory letters household Isocrates letter of advice letter of blame letter of consolation letter writing letters of praise Libanius literary living Lord Malherbe model letter moral Oxyrhynchus P.Oxy papyrus letters paraenesis paraenetic letter Paul Paulinus of Nola person philosophical Pliny Plutarch praise and blame protreptic rebuke recipient relationship reproach rhetoricians Roman salute Sarapion says scholars second century C.E. Seneca shame social Socrates someone soul speech style Synesius Theodoret Thessalonians things tion tradition types of exhortation types of letters typical William Melmoth