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Feb 28, 2013 · In his brief and pithy love-letter ‘To Nicetes’ (Epistle 52), which Nauck observes may well draw on the pun of Agathon, the third-century sophist Philostratus would similarly appeal to the association of ὀρᾶν with ἐρᾶν to refute, in an ironic way, two time-honoured maxims about erōs: that love is a ‘disease’; and that ...
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His letters take it for granted that paiderastia – best translated as ladslove rather than boylove (as the beloved’s age can range from thirteen to eighteen years) – is the natural state of affairs in any civilized society. They have often been plundered for material to enrich modern heterosexual love letters and love lyrics.
Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus ( / fɪˈlɒstrətəs /; Greek: Φιλόστρατος Philostratos; [1] c. 170s – 240s AD), called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period. His father was a minor sophist of the same name. He flourished during the reign of Septimius Severus (193–211) and died during that ...
Of these twenty letters only Letter 48 (“To a Certain Companion”) and Letter 53 (“To a Certain Woman”) are love letters; the remaining eighteen deal with a number of different subjects (some of the letters lacking even letter form) and are addressed, either on ms. authority or on the authority of the Aldine edition, a to named persons.
Love letters, a collection of fictional letters; Other letters, including one to Julia Domna, the wife of the emperor Septimius Severus. Philostratus III (son-in-law; first half of the third century), surnamed the Lemnian
Jan 30, 2023 · This volume investigates the form of love letters and erotic letters in Greek and Latin up to the 7th Century CE, encompassing both literary and documentary letters (the latter inscribed and on papyrus), and prose and poetry. The potential for, and utility of treating this large and diverse corpus as a ‘genre’ is examined. To this end, approaches from ancient literary criticism and modern ...
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prose love-letter, as a literary form, may date from a writer little earlier than Alciphron (Lesbonax of Mytilene, second century a.d.): it is sometimes traced (improbably) to Lysias' discourse in Plato's Phaedrus (230e-234c). Philostratus's brief love-letters to both sexes (judged by Saintsbury to be 'interesting and even beautiful')10
