Ruth Morello
Biographic Data
| ID | 4003976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Morello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Morello |
| SIGNATURE | MORELLO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Innovation and Cliché: The Letters of Caesar
Caesar the letter writer appears in numerous remarkable vignettes of multi-tasking productivity: sources describe him causing offence by openly dealing with correspondence during shows, 1 dictating multiple letters on horseback to at least two secretaries simultaneously, 2 or receiving a love letter from his mistress during a Senate debate. 3 Even on the last night of his life, we find him half-listening to conversation after dinner while 'reclin…
Pliny Book 8
Writer and addressee in Cicero's letters
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Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction
This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters as an artistically structured collection. Chapter 1 traces Pliny's autobiographical narrative throughout the Letters; Chapter 2 undertakes detailed study of Book 6 as an artistic entity; while Chapter 3 sets Pliny's letters within a Roman epistolograp…
Chapter Nine. Pliny And The Encyclopaedic Addressee
This chapter seeks to re-consider the features of Pliny's Preface, and it will argue that the humorous paradoxes in Pliny's approach to Titus, together with his apparent modesty about the HN itself, should be read as a sophisticated exercise in defining a problematic addressee and then turning him into the reader Pliny wants him to be. The opening epistle takes an encyclopaedic approach, both to the predecessors and models whom Pliny lists, incor…
Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts
Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts
Pliny's Naturalis Historia – a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical, botanical and zoological riches of the ancient world – has had a long career in the footnotes of historical studies. This is a phenomenon born of the sense that the work was there to consult, or to ‘use’, as a resource to aid investigation of specific technical issues or passages, of Quellenforschung, or of delimited topic areas. T…
Confidence, Inuidia , and Pliny's Epistolary Curriculum
This chapter examines in detail Pliny's ‘inclusive’ persona, and particularly the ways in which his correspondence fosters a community of addressees and develops a didactic project in literary friendship and literary criticism. The letter presents another lesson in how to operate in literary society, taught by a man who seems unsure of himself in literary production, but confident that he does at least know how the social sides of literary activi…
Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography
Introduction: What is a letter? 1. Down among the documents: criticism and papyrus letters 2. '... when who should walk into the room but': epistoliterarity in Cicero, Ad Qfr 3.1 3. Cicero's 'stomach': political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Cicero's correspondence 4. Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's Epistles 1 5. The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters 6. Letters of recommendation and the rh…
A Correspondence Course in Tyranny: The Cruentae Litterae of Tiberius
A consideration of Tacitus's use of the epistolary genre when it is transplanted to historiography and how letters (especially the imperial variety) function as a component of (rather than a source for) Tacitean historical narrative. Above all, Tacitus punctuates his Tiberian hexad with the emperor's letters, culminating in the grim epistolary climax of Annals 6. This paper first offers a discursive sketch of the unfolding epistolary narrative of…
Pliny and the Art of Saying Nothing
Pliny and the Art of Saying Nothing Ruth Morello This paper examines Pliny's habit of "evasive display," a practice which exploits the recusatio to the full and produces the sense of endless deferral in the letters. Letters are generically fluid, covering a broad spectrum in style, content, length, and function. Social constraints, however, are considerable, since letters, both as physical objects and as intellectual artifices, form part of the c…
Livy's Alexander Digression (9.17–19): Counterfactuals and Apologetics
Orthodox historians have tended to dislike attempts to think counterfactually about the past, on the grounds that ‘virtual history’ offers little more than entertainment and degenerates too easily into banal trivialities. In addition, it provokes fears about the offending historian's commitment to the truth and the consequent effect on his readers’ historical memories; a recent essay in the New Statesman, deploring the increasing presence of coun…
Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography
Introduction: What is a letter? 1. Down among the documents: criticism and papyrus letters 2. '... when who should walk into the room but': epistoliterarity in Cicero, Ad Qfr 3.1 3. Cicero's 'stomach': political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Cicero's correspondence 4. Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's Epistles 1 5. The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters 6. Letters of recommendation and the rh…
Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction
This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters as an artistically structured collection. Chapter 1 traces Pliny's autobiographical narrative throughout the Letters; Chapter 2 undertakes detailed study of Book 6 as an artistic entity; while Chapter 3 sets Pliny's letters within a Roman epistolograp…
Pliny and the Art of Saying Nothing
Pliny and the Art of Saying Nothing Ruth Morello This paper examines Pliny's habit of "evasive display," a practice which exploits the recusatio to the full and produces the sense of endless deferral in the letters. Letters are generically fluid, covering a broad spectrum in style, content, length, and function. Social constraints, however, are considerable, since letters, both as physical objects and as intellectual artifices, form part of the c…
Livy's Alexander Digression (9.17–19): Counterfactuals and Apologetics
Orthodox historians have tended to dislike attempts to think counterfactually about the past, on the grounds that ‘virtual history’ offers little more than entertainment and degenerates too easily into banal trivialities. In addition, it provokes fears about the offending historian's commitment to the truth and the consequent effect on his readers’ historical memories; a recent essay in the New Statesman, deploring the increasing presence of coun…
Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts
Pliny's Naturalis Historia – a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical, botanical and zoological riches of the ancient world – has had a long career in the footnotes of historical studies. This is a phenomenon born of the sense that the work was there to consult, or to ‘use’, as a resource to aid investigation of specific technical issues or passages, of Quellenforschung, or of delimited topic areas. T…
A Correspondence Course in Tyranny: The Cruentae Litterae of Tiberius
A consideration of Tacitus's use of the epistolary genre when it is transplanted to historiography and how letters (especially the imperial variety) function as a component of (rather than a source for) Tacitean historical narrative. Above all, Tacitus punctuates his Tiberian hexad with the emperor's letters, culminating in the grim epistolary climax of Annals 6. This paper first offers a discursive sketch of the unfolding epistolary narrative of…
Livy's Alexander Digression (9.17–19): Counterfactuals and Apologetics
Orthodox historians have tended to dislike attempts to think counterfactually about the past, on the grounds that ‘virtual history’ offers little more than entertainment and degenerates too easily into banal trivialities. In addition, it provokes fears about the offending historian's commitment to the truth and the consequent effect on his readers’ historical memories; a recent essay in the New Statesman, deploring the increasing presence of coun…
Pliny and the Art of Saying Nothing
Pliny and the Art of Saying Nothing Ruth Morello This paper examines Pliny's habit of "evasive display," a practice which exploits the recusatio to the full and produces the sense of endless deferral in the letters. Letters are generically fluid, covering a broad spectrum in style, content, length, and function. Social constraints, however, are considerable, since letters, both as physical objects and as intellectual artifices, form part of the c…
A Correspondence Course in Tyranny: The Cruentae Litterae of Tiberius
A consideration of Tacitus's use of the epistolary genre when it is transplanted to historiography and how letters (especially the imperial variety) function as a component of (rather than a source for) Tacitean historical narrative. Above all, Tacitus punctuates his Tiberian hexad with the emperor's letters, culminating in the grim epistolary climax of Annals 6. This paper first offers a discursive sketch of the unfolding epistolary narrative of…
Confidence, Inuidia , and Pliny's Epistolary Curriculum
This chapter examines in detail Pliny's ‘inclusive’ persona, and particularly the ways in which his correspondence fosters a community of addressees and develops a didactic project in literary friendship and literary criticism. The letter presents another lesson in how to operate in literary society, taught by a man who seems unsure of himself in literary production, but confident that he does at least know how the social sides of literary activi…
Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography
Introduction: What is a letter? 1. Down among the documents: criticism and papyrus letters 2. '... when who should walk into the room but': epistoliterarity in Cicero, Ad Qfr 3.1 3. Cicero's 'stomach': political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Cicero's correspondence 4. Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's Epistles 1 5. The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters 6. Letters of recommendation and the rh…
Chapter Nine. Pliny And The Encyclopaedic Addressee
This chapter seeks to re-consider the features of Pliny's Preface, and it will argue that the humorous paradoxes in Pliny's approach to Titus, together with his apparent modesty about the HN itself, should be read as a sophisticated exercise in defining a problematic addressee and then turning him into the reader Pliny wants him to be. The opening epistle takes an encyclopaedic approach, both to the predecessors and models whom Pliny lists, incor…
Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts
Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts
Pliny's Naturalis Historia – a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical, botanical and zoological riches of the ancient world – has had a long career in the footnotes of historical studies. This is a phenomenon born of the sense that the work was there to consult, or to ‘use’, as a resource to aid investigation of specific technical issues or passages, of Quellenforschung, or of delimited topic areas. T…
Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction
This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters as an artistically structured collection. Chapter 1 traces Pliny's autobiographical narrative throughout the Letters; Chapter 2 undertakes detailed study of Book 6 as an artistic entity; while Chapter 3 sets Pliny's letters within a Roman epistolograp…
Writer and addressee in Cicero's letters
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Pliny Book 8
Innovation and Cliché: The Letters of Caesar
Caesar the letter writer appears in numerous remarkable vignettes of multi-tasking productivity: sources describe him causing offence by openly dealing with correspondence during shows, 1 dictating multiple letters on horseback to at least two secretaries simultaneously, 2 or receiving a love letter from his mistress during a Senate debate. 3 Even on the last night of his life, we find him half-listening to conversation after dinner while 'reclin…
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