IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 122: Latin Letters and Letter Collections, I: Late Antiquity
Monday 10 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Cristiana Sogno, Department of Classics, University of California, Irvine |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Cristiana Sogno, Department of Classics, University of California, Irvine |
| Paper 122-a | Consentius’ Epistolary Apologia (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Theology |
| Paper 122-b | Fathers and Sons in the Letters of Symmachus (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Social History |
| Paper 122-c | Some Treatments of Sexual Scandal in Latin Epistolography (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | This is the first of three sequential sessions devoted to an important form of Latin writing from classical antiquity onward, the letter, and to collections of letters either subsequently published or at least archivally maintained. In the present offering, Jennifer Ebbeler discusses one aspect of the relatively recently discovered correspondence between the churchmen Consentius of Majorca and Augustine of Hippo, Michele Salzman considers relations between generations in the letters of the aristocratic statesman Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, and Danuta Shanzer addresses ways in which Augustine and others deal with scandal in a medium subject to miscarriage and to breaches of confidentiality. |