Commentary on the Pseudonymous Letters of Aeschines
Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 978-3-16-164688-1
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Buch. Hardcover
2025
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: 428 S.
Format (B x L): 15,5 x 23,2 cm
Gewicht: 406
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 978-3-16-164688-1
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Through a comprehensive introduction and detailed commentary, Zilong Guo reappraises the letters attributed to the Attic orator Aeschines. These letters merit a place in Greek literature for their synthesis of preexisting literary forms. Letters 2, 3, 7, 11, and 12 imitate the letters of Demosthenes in a manner akin to rhetorical exercises. Letters 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10 exhibit features reminiscent of the epistolary fiction that flourished in the first centuries AD. Letter 4 is a prose paraphrase of Pindar's victory odes. Like other literary forgeries, these letters are both problematic and fascinating. Likely products of rhetorical culture, they nevertheless hold a unique place as early and remarkably successful examples of how literary and political trends were interwoven to (re)shape the Classical tradition.
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