The Resource The letters of Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus, with an English translation by A.R. Benner and F.H. Fobes, (electronic book)
The letters of Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus, with an English translation by A.R. Benner and F.H. Fobes, (electronic book)
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The item The letters of Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus, with an English translation by A.R. Benner and F.H. Fobes, (electronic book) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- The fictitious, highly literary Letters of Alciphron (second century CE) are mostly to invented characters. Letters of Farmers by Aelian (c. 170-235 CE) portray the country ways of their imagined writers. The Erotic Epistles of Philostratus (perhaps born c. 170 CE) resemble and may have been influenced by those of Alciphron.
- Language
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- eng
- grc
- grc
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Isbn
- 9780674994218
- Label
- The letters of Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus
- Title
- The letters of Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus
- Statement of responsibility
- with an English translation by A.R. Benner and F.H. Fobes
- Language
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- eng
- grc
- grc
- eng
- Summary
- The fictitious, highly literary Letters of Alciphron (second century CE) are mostly to invented characters. Letters of Farmers by Aelian (c. 170-235 CE) portray the country ways of their imagined writers. The Erotic Epistles of Philostratus (perhaps born c. 170 CE) resemble and may have been influenced by those of Alciphron.
- Cataloging source
- MaCbHUP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Alciphron
- Language note
- Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages
- LC call number
- PA3612
- LC item number
- .A435 2014
- Literary form
- letters
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- active 3rd century
- active 2nd century-3rd century
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Aelian
- Philostratus
- Benner, Allen Rogers
- Fobes, Francis H.
- Series statement
- Loeb Classical Library
- Series volume
- 383
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Greek letters
- Summary expansion
- The Letters of Alciphron (second century CE) constitute one of the most attractive products of the Second Sophistic. They are fictitious compositions based on an astonishingly wide variety of circumstances, though the theme of erotic love is constantly sounded. The imagination shown by the author and his convincing realism win him a place of distinction in the early development of romantic prose. The letters, which are highly literary, owing much to the New Comedy of Menander, purport to give us a sketch of the social life of Athens in the fourth century BCE. The collection is arranged in four divisions: Letters of Fishermen; Farmers; Parasites; Courtesans. Senders and addressees are mostly invented characters, but in the last section Alciphron presents us with several attempts at historical fiction, the most engaging being an exchange of letters between Menander and Glycera. This volume also includes twenty Letters of Farmers ascribed to Aelian (c.170-235 CE) and a collection of seventy-three Erotic Epistles of Philostratus (probably Flavius of that name, also born c. 170 CE). In style and subject matter these resemble those of Alciphron, by whom they may have been influenced
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- The letters of Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus, with an English translation by A.R. Benner and F.H. Fobes, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographies and indexes
- Color
- multicolored
- Control code
- hup0000483
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780674994218
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- The letters of Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus, with an English translation by A.R. Benner and F.H. Fobes, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographies and indexes
- Color
- multicolored
- Control code
- hup0000483
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780674994218
- Specific material designation
- remote
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