By Paola Ceccarelli
ISBN-10: 0199675597
ISBN-13: 9780199675593
While a letter is in itself the transcription of an oral message and, as such, should be both honest or deceitful, letters got destructive connotations within the 5th century, specifically whilst used for transactions in regards to the public and never the personal sphere. seen because the device of tyrants or close to jap kings, those adverse connotations have been obtrusive specifically in Athens the place comedy and tragedy testified to an underlying main issue with epistolary communique. In different components of the
Greek international, similar to Sparta or Crete, the letter could have been visible as an unproblematic device for dealing with public guidelines, with inscriptions documenting the reliable use of letters not just via the Hellenistic kings, but additionally by means of a few poleis.
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