Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature

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). 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). Evelien Bracke, Ph.D. (2009), National University of Ireland, Maynooth, is currently the Latin and Greek tutor at Swansea University. Contributors: Silvio Bär, Angus Bowie, Deborah Gera, Pamela Gordon, Owen Hodkinson, Dmitri Kasprzyk, Jason König, Jane McLarty, John Morgan, A.D. Morrison, Ryan Olson, Orlando Poltera, Ian Repath, P.A. Rosenmeyer, Niall Slater, Tim Whitmarsh

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Owen Hodkinson and Patricia A. RosenmeyerI. Epistolary Forms: Letters in Narrative, Letters as NarrativeA. Epistolary Writing in Extended Narratives: Letters in Euripides, Herodotus, and Xenophon 1) The Appearance of Letters on Stages and Vases, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer2) Letters in Herodotus, Angus Bowie3) Letters in Xenophon, Deborah GeraB. Correspondences of Historical Figures: Authentic and Pseudonymous4) Narrative and Epistolarity in the ‘Platonic’ Epistles, Andrew D. Morrison5) Epistolary Epicureans, Pamela Gordon6) The Letters of Euripides, Orlando PolteraII. Innovation and Experimentation in Epistolary Narratives A. Epistolarity and Other Narrative Forms: Generic Hybridity 7) Addressing Power: Fictional Letters Between Alexander and Darius, Tim Whitmarsh8) Alciphron and the Sympotic Letter Tradition, Jason König9) Lucian’s Saturnalian Epistolarity, Niall SlaterB. Embedded Letters in Longer Fictions10) Odysseus’ Letter to Kalypso in Lucian’s Verae Historiae, Silvio F. Bär11) Yours Truly? Letters in Achilles Tatius, Ian Repath12) Letters in Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Dimitri KasprzykC. Short Stories in Epistolary Form 13) The Epistolary Ghost Story in Phlegon of Tralles, John Morgan14) Epistolarity and Narrative in ps.-Aeschines Epistle 10, Owen HodkinsonIII. Jewish and Early Christian Epistolary Narratives15) Letters in the War between Rome and Judaea, Ryan Olson16) The Function of the Letter Form in Christian Martyrdom Accounts, Jane MclartyBibliographyIndices

"[T]he volume has the potential to draw the attention of ancient historians working on texts as diverse and chronologically separate as Herodotus and Josephus to the importance of letters embedded in historiographical narratives, and it sheds innovative light on late antique martyrdom accounts cast in the form of a letter." Lieve Van Hoof, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.08.47.