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›res vera, res ficta‹: Fictionality in Ancient Epistolography
Edited by Janja Soldo, Edited by Claire Rachel Jackson
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Letters are famously easy to recognise, notoriously hard to define. Both real and fictitious letters can look identical to the point that there are no formal criteria which can distinguish one from the other. This has long been a point of anxiety in scholarship which has considered the value of an ancient letter to be determined by its authenticity, necessitating a strict binary opposition of genuine as opposed to fake letters. This volume challenges this dichotomy directly. Rather than defining epistolary fiction as a literary genre in opposition to ‘genuine’ letters or reducing it down to fixed rhetorical features, it argues that fiction is an inherent and fluid property of letters which ancient writers recognised and exploited. This volume contributes to wider scholarship on ancient fiction by demonstrating through the multiplicity of genres, contexts, and time periods discussed how complex and multifaceted ancient awareness of fictionality was. As such, this volume shows that letters are uniquely well-placed to unsettle disciplinary boundaries of fact and fiction, authentic and spurious, and that this allows for a deeper understanding of how ancient writers conceptualised and manipulated the fictional potential of letters.
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Publisher | De Gruyter
Published date | 30 Jun 2025
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 280
Dimensions | 230 x 155 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 572g
ISBN | 978-3-1122-1543-2
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BISAC | history / ancient / general
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