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.
Facts
Place of Origin Notable Example Defining TraitElegant compositions that conveyed no real information 1 Defining Trait Connections
Features Author
Source Cicero (Wikipedia)
Source Epicurus (Wikipedia)
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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
Lead paragraph, defining sentence
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.
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.
View the SourceCicero (Wikipedia)
Features Author: Cicero, History, lettersQuote, Features Author: Cicero, History, letters
Cicero's letters contained such a wealth of detail
Epicurus (Wikipedia)
Features Author: Epicurus, Lead, surviving worksQuote, Features Author: Epicurus, Lead, surviving works
Only a few letters and a collection of quotes
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