By Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
This booklet deals the 1st finished examine using imaginary letters in Greek literature from Homer to Philostratus. through imaginary letters, it potential letters written within the voice of one other, and both inserted right into a narrative (epic, historiography, tragedy, the novel), or comprising a free-standing assortment (e.g. the Greek love letter collections of the Imperial Roman period). The booklet demanding situations the idea that Ovid "invented" the fictitious letter shape within the Heroides, and considers a wealth of Greek antecedents for the later ecu epistolary novel culture.
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The Riverside Shakespeare (Boston 1974) 1181. 39 40 Epistolary ®ctions tingent defending Priam's city (Il. 876), and Diomedes, son of Tydeus and friend of Odysseus. As they boast of their lineage and bravery before the engagement, Glaucus discovers a connection with his enemy Diomedes through an ancient act of hospitality, which leads the two warriors to put down their weapons and exchange (famously unequal) gifts as hereditary guest-friends. In the process of their encounter, Glaucus relates the story of his ancestor, Bellerophon, who was once a guest in King Proetus' house.
The letter is written in a schoolboy's uncial hand, so presumably by Theon himself. It must have reached his father somewhere between their local town and Alexandria, when the traveller stopped long enough to pick up his mail at a prearranged spot. The writer's spelling, grammar, and language all testify to his youth and limited education. It appears that his father has tricked him, with a distracting bribe of delicious locust-beans, out of a trip to 32 For this position, see A. J. Malherbe, Ancient Epistolary Theorists (Atlanta GA 1988) 6±7, and White (1986) 189±92.
In Greek poetry, the ®rst reference to writing is a reference to a letter: Bellerophon carries horrible signs (Hom. Il. 168: shÂmt lugr ), written by Proetus on a folded tablet. It is unclear whether these signs were actual alphabetic signs, some sort of pictograph, or a code known only to the writer and his addressee. Whatever the case may be for Proetus and his addressee, it is unlikely that large numbers of the population were literate at that time. 22 The earliest 20 Steiner (1994) 127.