title: Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Library of Early Christianity)
author: Stanley K. Stowers
description: <b>Stanley E. Stowers</b> is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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  LETTERS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DEAD AUTHORS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  BY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ANDREW LANG
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Decorative picture
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  LONDON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1886
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  MISS THACKERAY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THESE EXERCISES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  IN THE ART OF DIPPING
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ARE DEDICATED
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PREFACE.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Sixteen of these Letters, which have been written on the concept of the Editor
  of the “St. James’s Gazette,” appeared in that journal, from which they're now
  reprinted, by the Editor’s kind permission. They had been extremely emended,
  and a few additions have been made. The Letters to Horace, Byron, Isaak
  Walton, Chapelain, Ronsard, and Theocritus have now not been published before.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The gem on the title-page, now engraved for the first time, is a purple
  cornelian inside the British Museum, likely Græco-Roman, and dealt with in an
  archaistic fashion. It represents Hermes Psychagogos, wi