Download or read book Ancient Greek Letter Writing written by Paola Ceccarelli and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceccarelli offers a history of the development of letter writing in ancient Greece from the archaic to the early Hellenistic period. Highlighting the specificity of letter-writing, the volume looks at documentary letters and traces the role of embedded letters in the texts of the ancient historians, in drama, and in the speeches of the orators.