Roman Letters

Noelle K. Zeiner-Carmichael is Associate Professor of Classics at the College of Charleston, where she teaches courses in Latin, Greek, Roman culture, and literature in translation. She is the author of Nothing Ordinary Here: Statius as Creator of Distinction in the Silvae (2005).

List of Figures ix

Preface x

Acknowledgments xiii

A Note on Translation xv

List of Abbreviations xvii

Maps xix

1 Letters and Letter-Writing in Ancient Rome 1

2 The Roman Republic (70 bce–27 bce) 21

1–49 Cicero 21

50 Catiline 61

51–53 Catullus 62

3 The Augustan Age (27 bce–14 ce) 66

54–58 Augustus 66

59–69 Horace 68

70–71 Propertius 79

72–83 Ovid 81

4 The Roman Empire (14 ce–third century ce) 96

84 Emperor Tiberius (14–37 ce) 96

85 Emperor Claudius (41–54 ce) 97

86–95 Seneca the Younger 99

96 Paul the Apostle 112

97 Jude 114

98–101 Martial 115

102–105 Statius 117

106–164 Pliny the Younger 122

165–166 John the Elder 154

167–194 Fronto 156

195–203 Letters from Vindolanda 169

204–214 Papyri 173

5 Epistolary Theorists 183

215 (Pseudo-)Demetrius 183

216 Pseudo-Libanius 184

General Index 187

Concordance of Texts 193