The contributors to this volume analyse how ancient technical writers dealt with linguistic and stylistic, in particular terminological, features, but also focus on the pragmatic level of technical te
The image of the body has become a popular theme in academic studies. In the case of Greco-Roman studies, it is particularly apt. Representations of and by bodies were signals that placed a being with
The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate thoughts across distances of space and time. This model underwrites su
