Epistolography, or the art of writing letters, is a genre of Byzantine literature similar to rhetoric that was popular with the intellectual elite of the Byzantine age.
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Place of Origin Notable Example Defining TraitElegant compositions that conveyed no real information 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Epistolography
Introduction, first sentence
Epistolography, or the art of writing letters, is a genre of Byzantine literature similar to rhetoric
Main body, letter count paragraph
Libanius (c. 314-392 or 393) left over 1500 letters in Greek
Main body, quoting A.H.M. Jones
a social convention of elegant compositions which contained no information and solicited none
In Group: Medieval and Byzantine Prose Genres, Lead section
Epistolography, or the art of writing letters, is a genre of Byzantine literature similar to rhetoric that was popular with the intellectual elite of the Byzantine age.
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