Epistolary Narratives presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary letter collections across a range of genres, cultural backgrounds, and time periods, leading collectively towards a better appreciation of Greek epistolary collections as a unique literary phenomenon.

Acknowledgments Introduction, Owen Hodkinson and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer I. Epistolary Forms: Letters in Narrative, Letters as Narrative A. Epistolary Writing in Extended Narratives: Letters in Euripides, Herodotus, and Xenophon 1) The Appearance of Letters on Stages and Vases, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer 2) Letters in Herodotus, Angus Bowie 3) Letters in Xenophon, Deborah Gera B. Correspondences of Historical Figures: Authentic and Pseudonymous 4) Narrative and Epistolarity in the ‘Platonic’ Epistles, Andrew D. Morrison 5) Epistolary Epicureans, Pamela Gordon 6) The Letters of Euripides, Orlando Poltera II. Innovation and Experimentation in Epistolary Narratives A. Epistolarity and Other Narrative Forms: Generic Hybridity 7) Addressing Power: Fictional Letters Between Alexander and Darius, Tim Whitmarsh 8) Alciphron and the Sympotic Letter Tradition, Jason König 9) Lucian’s Saturnalian Epistolarity, Niall Slater B. Embedded Letters in Longer Fictions 10) Odysseus’ Letter to Kalypso in Lucian’s Verae Historiae, Silvio F. Bär 11) Yours Truly? Letters in Achilles Tatius, Ian Repath 12) Letters in Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Dimitri Kasprzyk C. Short Stories in Epistolary Form 13) The Epistolary Ghost Story in Phlegon of Tralles, John Morgan 14) Epistolarity and Narrative in ps.-Aeschines Epistle 10, Owen Hodkinson III. Jewish and Early Christian Epistolary Narratives 15) Letters in the War between Rome and Judaea, Ryan Olson 16) The Function of the Letter Form in Christian Martyrdom Accounts, Jane Mclarty Bibliography Indices