By Paola Ceccarelli
During this quantity, Ceccarelli bargains a historical past of the advance of letter writing in historical Greece from the archaic to the early Hellenistic interval. Highlighting the specificity of letter-writing, in preference to different kinds of communique and writing, the quantity seems to be at documentary letters, but additionally strains the position of embedded letters within the texts of the traditional historians, in drama, and within the speeches of the orators.
While a letter is in itself the transcription of an oral message and, as such, could be both honest or deceitful, letters obtained adverse connotations within the 5th century, in particular whilst used for transactions in regards to the public and never the non-public sphere. considered because the device of tyrants or close to jap kings, those detrimental connotations have been obvious specially in Athens the place comedy and tragedy testified to an underlying problem with epistolary communique. In different components of the Greek global, equivalent to Sparta or Crete, the letter can have been visible as an unproblematic tool for handling public rules, with inscriptions documenting the legit use of letters not just by means of the Hellenistic kings, but additionally by means of a few poleis.
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73. 1; 2. 73. 2). ˆæÆììÆôØóôÞò appears 8 times, as ‘scribe’ (7. 100. 1; 8. 90. 4), ‘secretary’ (3. 123. 1, and of Persian satraps 3. 128. 3 bis, 3. 128. 5), and ‘treasurer’ (2. 28. 1; 2. 28. 5). ªæÜçø refers 7 times to the author’s own writing; 5 times it means ‘depict’; 18 times ‘write’, ‘write down’, on all sort of supports; 4 times ‘cause to be written’. Instances of IíÆ-, Iðï-, Kª-, KðØ-, ŒÆôÆ-, ðåæØ-, ðæïóåª-, óıªªæÜçø have been discussed where relevant—they need not detain us here. Introduction 17 original writing that may or may not have been a letter, while ªæÆììÜôØïí (found for instance in Antiphon) indicates a small note (again, this may or may not be a letter, depending on the situations).
23; appendix 1, no. v. ‘äØçŁÝæÆ’. Note also Eur. fr. , åNódí ªÜæ, åNód äØçŁÝæÆØ ìåºåªªæÆçåEò ðﺺHí ªÝìïıóÆØ ¸ïîßïı ªÅæıìÜôøí (discussed below, 217–18). v. 61 The Lexicon to Herodotus of Powell lists the following senses of ªæÜììÆ (34 times altogether): ‘letter of the alphabet’ (14 times); ‘piece of writing’, usually inscription (18 times); in the plural, ‘an epistle’ (twice: 1. 124. 1 and 5. 14). ˆæÆçÞ is used for ‘painting’ (5 times: 3. 24. 2; 4. 36. 2; 2. 78; 2. 86. 2; 2. 182. 1, the last three instances referring to imitations of a painting) or ‘a picture’ (3 times: 1.
100. 3. âØâºØÆçüæïò (or âıâºØÆçüæïò) is regularly used in Diodorus for a messenger transmitting a written message: so for those sent by the Selinuntioi to Gelon and by the Athenians to the Spartans at the time of the Persian wars, 11. 21. 4 and 11. 28. 5; for the couriers between Pausanias and the King, 11. 45. 2; bibliaphoroi are sent by the Selinuntioi to the Syracusans, 13. 54. 3; in 14. 101. 47 The royal letters that the Seleucids sent to their administrators reveal the multiple relays required for the transmission of royal orders; but it is important to keep in mind that this structure covered only the territories internal to the kingdom, and would thus not have been of any use in international diplomacy.