CLAS 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Odysseus, Elegy, Heroides
17 Mar 2016
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=social and business relaionships (i"ll scratch your back-you scratch mine in the next elecion) =superintendent from villa coming once a month to report business statuses and ventures. >someimes supericial because you want to keep the client-patron relaionship going, don"t be silent for too long. >leters were someimes dictated (writer wriing down what cicero"s saying. >ghost wriing write a leter to aicus saying this and that . Write on my behalf on whatever you think is important . Mimic live interacions (try to follow person-to-person relaionship convenion) To friend, hope you are well. >duplicate leters = archives and iling (send one to aicus, then make a copy of it for your own iles) *even though cicero was gone, his home base was sill a hub . >cicero probably did not arrange for the mass publicaion of his correspondence. >the editor took an acive role in the shaping of the corpus.
