Abstract

This collection of papers is equally rich in its range of subject matter and variety of approaches. Based on a conference held at Manchester, UK in 2004, it has made excellent use of the recent flowering of texts and discussions of Greek and Latin letters. It specifically acknowledges our common debt to M. B. Trapp's fine anthology, Greek and Latin Letters, with its substantial analytical introduction and eighty texts drawn from all periods, each with translation and commentary, to which we can add Patricia Rosenmeyer's monograph, Ancient Epistolary Fictions, C. D. N. Costa's collection of translated Greek Fictional Letters, and now Bagnall and Cribiore's collection, Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt.