Introduction: Greek and Latin Epistolography and Epistolary Collections in Late Antiquity

Introduction: Greek and Latin Epistolography and Epistolary Collections in Late Antiquity. Sogno, C., Storin, B. K., & Watts, E. J. In Sogno, C., Storin, B. K., & Watts, E. J., editors, Late Antique Letter Collections, of A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide, pages 1–10. University of California Press, 1 edition, 2017.

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Letters have long been an object of attention for scholars of ancient history, and yet the privileged relationship between epistolography and historiography—one that extends back to antiquity itself—has often been uneasy. For instance, ancient readers of Cicero’s letters to Atticus thought they offered an actual history of the late Republic, but modern readers in the nineteenth century, guided by the imperatives of scientific historiography, viewed letters differently. Rather than treating letters as literary documents that, like narrative historiography, used a reconstruction of the past to develop certain historical themes and illustrate the character of individuals, these modern historians

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