"This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300-600 C.E.). Bringing together

Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extan

Noted scholars in the field explore the rich variety of late antique literature With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antiq

Introduction to the nature, function, production and dissemination of Late Antique literary letters and their importance for their society.

The surviving body of ancient letters offers the reader a stunning variety of material, ranging from the everyday letters preserved among the Oxyrhynchus papyri