THE ANCIENT EPISTOLARI TOPOI AND THEIR CHRISTIAN RECONSIDERATION Cover Image

АНТИЧНИТЕ ЕПИСТОЛАРНИ ТОПОСИ И ТЯХНОТО ХРИСТИЯНСКО ПРЕОСМИСЛЯНЕ
THE ANCIENT EPISTOLARI TOPOI AND THEIR CHRISTIAN RECONSIDERATION

Author(s): Silvia Georgieva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«

Summary/Abstract: The article researches the idea of letter writing in Antiquity and common places in ancient epistolography. It represents a survey of chronologically listed quotations from famous Greek and Latin letter writers, translated by the author of the article, so that it claimes that the letter in Antiquity is perceived as a mean to connect friends intellectually and spiritually and it is a substitute of the author himself. The article also examines the Christian aspect of the epistolography during Late Antiquity.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 176-181
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Bulgarian