Ancient Epistolography

The following list was compiled by James D. Hester for the Seminar on Paul of the Society of Biblical Literature. It was completed and distributed to members in 1972. Since that time several major studies of ancient letters have appeared. Interested persons should refer to the following and more recent  bibliographies.

William Doty, Letters in Primitive Christianity. Fortress, 1973.

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, Paul the Letter Writer. The Liturgical Press, 1995.

Stanley K. Stowers, Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Westminster, 1986.

Patrizia Violi, "Letters" in T. A. van Dijk, Discourse and Literature, John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1985.

John L. White, Light From Ancient Letters. Fortress, 1986.

I. General

Ahl, Sally W. Epistolary Texts from Ugarit: Structural and Lexical Correspondences in Epistles in Akkadian and Ugaritic, (Diss. Brandeis, 1973), DAI, Jan. 1974, A, 4228.

Albert, P. Le genre epistolaire chez les anciens, Paris, 1869.

Alexander, P. J. "Letters and Speeches of the Emperor Hadrian", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938.

Andreae, Wilhelm F. Platons Staatschriften Griechish und Deutsch, "Erster Teil: Briefe", Jena: G. Fischer, 1923.

Bailey, D. R. Shackleton, ed. Cicero's Letters to Atticus, Cambridge University Press, 1965.

Bardt, Carl. Ausgewahlte Briefe aus Ciceronischer Zeit: (I. Register u. Kommentar, II, Briefe), Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1901.

Bastiaensen, A. A. R. "Le Ceremonial epistolaire des Chretiens Latlna: Origine et Premiers Developpements", in Graecitas et Latinitas Christanorum Primaeva, Suppl. II, Nijmegen: Dekker and Van de Vegt, 1964, pp. 5 - 45.

Beer, Georg. "Zur israelitische - judische Briefliterature", in Alttestamentliche Studien, R. Kittel zum 60. Geburtstag dargebracht , Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1913, p. 20 - 41.

Bell, H. I. "Some Private Letters of the Roman Period from the London Collection", Rev. Egyptol, NSI (1919), 199 ff.

Benner, Allen Roger and Francls H. Foles. The Letters of Alciphron, Aeliou - and Philostratus, The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1949.

Bernays, Jacob. Die Heralclitiscllen Briefe. Ein Beitrag zur philosophischen und religionsgeschichtlischen Literatur. Berlin: Wilhelm Hertz, 1869.

Bickermann, E. Ein judischer Festbrief von Jahre 124 vor. Chr., ZNW 32 (1933), 233 - 254.

Bickermann, E. "La Lettre d'Alexandre le Grand aux Bannis Grees", Revue des Etudes Anciennes, 42 (1940), 25 - 35.

Bickerman, Elias and J. Sykutris. "Speusippes Brief an Konig Philip", Berichte uber die Verhandlungen der Sachsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig: philogisch - historische Klasse, Vol. 80, 3 (1928), 86ff.

Blass, Friedrich. "Die demosthenisehen Briefe", Jahrbucher fur classische Philologie 23 (1877), 541 - 544.

Bluck, Richard S. H. Plato's Life and Thought with a Translation of the Seventh Letter. London: Routledge and Paul, 1949.

Boyce, James Leonard. Ixion: Origins and Meanings of a Myth, (Diss. UNC at Chapel Hill, 1974) DAI, July 1975, A, 292 - 293.

Brinkmann, A. "Der alteste Briefsteller", Rheinisches Museum fur Philologie, NF 64 (1909), 310 - 317.

Brinkmann, A., Ein Brief Platons", Rheinisches Museum fur Philogie, 66 (1911), 226 - 230.

Brooke, D. (ed.). Private Letters Pagan and Christian. An Anthology of Greek and Roman Private Letters from the 5th Century B.C. to the Fifth Century of our Era. London: Bonn, 1929.

Broyde, Isaac. "Letter Writing and Letter Writers", The Jewish Encyclopedia, 7 (1904), 15 - 17.

Burk, Carolus. De Chionis epistulis. Diss. Darmstadt, 1912.

Calderini, Aristide. Manuale di papirologia antica greca e romanaad uso delle persone colfe. Milano, Casa editrice Ceschina, 1938.

Cancik, Hildegard. Untersuchungen zu Senecas Epistulae morales. Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1967.

Capelle, Wilhelm. De cynicorum epistulis. Diss. Gottingen, 1896.

Casson, L. and E. L. Hettich. Literary Papyri (Excavations at Nessana Series, vol. 2). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.

Clavelle, Richard Francis. Problems contained in Pliny's Letter on the Christians: A Critical Analysis, (Diss.: University of Illinois at - Champaign - Urbana, 1971), DAI, April 1972, A, 5758.

Contenau, Georges. Everyday Life in Babylon and Assyria, (tr. by K. R. and A. R., Maxwell - llyslop), London: E. Arnold, 1954

Croenert, W. "Die beiden altesten griechischen Briefe", Rh. Mus. fur Pllilologie, 65 (1910), 157 - 160.

Cugusi, P. Studi sull' epistolografia latina, I: L'eta preciceroniaha, Annali della Facolta di Lettere, Cagliari, 33:1, 1970.

Diels, H. "Hippokratische Forschungen V", Hermes: Zeitschrift fur classische Philologie, 53 (1918), 57 - 87.

Dollstadt, W. Griechische Papyrusprivatbriefe in gebildeter Sprache aus den ersten vier Jahrhunderten n. Chr. Diss. Leipzig, 1934.

Doerrie, H. Der heroische Brief. Bestandsaufnahne, Geschichte, Kritik einerhumanistisch - baracken Literaturgattung, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1968.

Dremiewska, B. De formula salutationsis quam Romani ab initio litterarum scribere soliti sunt (in Polish with summary in Latin), Meander (Warsaw), 21 (1966), 424 - 443.

During, Ingmar. Chion of Heraclea. A Nove1 in Letters (Acta Universitatis Gotoburgerisis, 57, 5.3 Goteborg, 1951.

Dziatzko, Karl. "Brief", (Paulys Realencyclopadia der classischen Altertums Wissenschaft), RE 3, (1897), 836 - 843.

Eisner, Leonhardus, ed., Epistulae Privatae Graecae (Papyri Iandanae, Fasc II). Leipzig: Teubner, 1913.

Engers, M. "The Letter from the Parthian King Artabanus III to theTown of Susa", Mnemosyne, series 3, Vol. 7 (1939), 136 - 141.

Ernst, Kennedy, Poeschl. L'Annee Philogique, Paris: Societe D'Edition "Les Belles Lettres", See categories, Part II, I "Historie Litteraire", also Textes: Epistulae".

Exler, Francis Xavier J. The Form of the Ancient Greek Letter. Diss., Catholic University of America, 1923.

Fernandez, Galiano M. Los problemas de autenticidad de la literature griega. Rev. de la Univ. de Madrid I, (1952), 213 - 238.

Fitzmyer, Joseph - A. "Some Notes on Aramaic Epistolography", JBL, 93, (1974), 201 - 225, (see bibliography).

Gardiner, Alan H. and Sethe, Kurt. Egyptian Letters to the Dead, Mainly from the Old and Middle Kingdoms. London: The Egyptian Exploration Society, 1928. (copies, translations, edited texts).

Gerharcl, G. A. "Beitrag zu W. Speilberg Papyrus Erbach", Aeg. Zeitschrift, 42 (1906), 43 - 60.

Ginsberg, H. L. "Notes on the Two Published Letters to Jeshua ben Galgolah", BASOR, 131 (Oct. 1953), 25 - 27.

Gleichen - Russwurm, Alexander von. Antikes Leben in Briefen: eine Auswahl aus der romischen Briefliteratur. Berlin: Bard, 1911.

Goldstein, Jonathon A. The Letters of Demosthenes. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.

de Gratia, Demetrio. De Isocratis quae ferunter epistulis. Catinae, 1888.

Greer, Russell M. Epicurus Letters, Principal Doctrines and Vatican Sayings. Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill, 1964.

Hackforth, Reginald. The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles. Manchester, The University Press, 1913.

Harward, John. The Platonic Epistles. Cambridge: The University Press, 1932.

Hercher, Rudolf, ed. Epistolographi Graeci. Paris: Ambrosio Firmin Didot, 1873.

Herzog, R. "Griechische Konigsbriefe", Hermes. Zeitschrift fur classische Philologie, 65 (1930, 455 - 471.

Hofmann, M. von (ed.). Antike Briefe, Lateinische und griechische Briefe aus dom Alltagsleben, Text und uebersetz. von M. von Hofmann. Munchen: Heimeran, 1935.

Horn, Robert C. "Life and Letters in the Papyri", Classical Journal, 17 (1922), 487 - 502.

Hout, Michiel van den. "Studies in Early Greek Letter Ð Writing", Mnemosyne IV, SGR 2, 1949, 18 - 41, 138 - 153. -

Howald, Ernst. Die Briefe Platons. Zurich: Fussli, 1923.

Huit, Charles. "Les Epistolographes Grecs", Revue des Etudes Grecques, 2 (1889), 149 - 163 .

Immisch, Otto. "Der erste platonische Brief", Philologus: Zt. f. das kl. Altertum, 72 (1913), 1 - 41.

Jackson, Carl N. "An Ancient Letter - Writer: Alciphron", Harvard Essays on Classical Subjects, ed. by H. W. Smyth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1912, 67 - 96.

Jackson, J. "The Text of the Epistles of Thelolotocles" , Classical Quarterly ,l9 (1925), 167 - 176; 20 (1926), 2/ - 35.

Kaiser, Otto. Zum Formular der in Ugarita gefundeten Briefe, Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palastina - Vereins, 86 (1970), 10 - 23.

Karlsson, Gustav. Ideologie et ceremonial dans l'epistolographie byzantine, (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensie. Studia Graeca Upsahensia, 3) 2nd ed. Uppsala, 1962.

Karst, J. "Der Brietwechsel Alexanders des Grossen", Philologus, 51 (1892), 602 - 622. ,

Karlowa, O. "Ueber den in Briefform ergangenen Erlasse romischen Kaiser", N. Heid, Jahrb., 6 (1896), 211ff. .

Karpelz, Karl. "Letters and Letter Writers", The Universal Encyclopedia, 6 1946, 615-617. -

Karsten, H. T. Commentatio critica de Platonis quae ferunter epistulis, Utrecht, Kemink, 1864. c

Kim, Chan Hie. Form and Structure of the Familiar Greek Letter of Recommendation Missoula, SBL Dissertation Series 4, 1972.

Kobayashi, Yoshitaka. Graphemic Analysis of Old Babylonian Letters from South Babylonia, (Diss. UCLA, 1975), DAI, Feb. 1976, A, 5257,

Kohler, L. Die Briefe des Sokrates und der Sokratiker (Philologus Suppl. - Bd. 20, 2), Leipzig, 1928.

Koskenniemi, Heikki. Studien zur Idee und Phraseologie - des griechischen Briefes bis 400 n. Chr. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Ser. B., 102, 2, Helsinki, 1956. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz, 1956.

Koskenniemi, Heikki. "Cicero ueber die Briefarten", in Commentationes in honorem Edwin Linlonies, Arctos: Acta Philologica Fennica, NSI, Helsinki: Octava, 1954, 97 - 102.

Kurfess, A. Romische Briefliteratur. Jahresbericht des philogischen Vereins, 1924, 152 - 160.

Laidlaw, W. A. "S.V.B.E.", Classical Philology, Vol. ? (1939), 251 - 252 (variations in salutations in Cicero's letter).

Laidlaw, W. A. (ed.) "Letters and Letter Writers" in Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. II, cds. 55 - 62, R. J. Jerusalem: The Macmillan Co., 1971.

Lietzmann, Hans. Greek Papyri. Selected and Explained Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1905.

Luck, G. Brief und Epistel in der Antike, Altertum, VII (1961), 77 - 84.

Lyonnet, S. De arte litteras exerandi apud antiquos, Verbum Domni,34 (1956), 3 - 11.

McGuire, Martin R. P. Introduction to Classical Scholarship: A Syllabus and Bibl - iographical Guide. Washington, D.C.., The Catholic University of America Press, 1961 (2nd ea.)

McGuire, Martin R. P. "Letters and Letter Carriers in Christian Antiquity", Class World, 53 (1960), 148 - 53, 184 - 185, 199 - 200.

Malunowicz, L. Epistulae consolatoriae Graecae (in Polish with summary in Latin), Eos, 54 (1964); 245 - 264.

Manteuffel, G. Epistulae privectae ineditae, Eos, 30 (1927), 211 - 215.

Marcks, J. F. Symbola critica ad Epistolographos Graecos, Diss. Bonn, 1883.

Milik, J. T. "Une Lettre de Simeon Bar Kokhaba", RB, 60 (1953), 276 - 294.

Miller, T. A. Les theories antiques du style epistolaire (in Russian), Anticnaja epistolografija, 5 - 25, 26 - 57, 192 - 225.

Miller, Anna Bertha. Roman Etiquette of the Late Republic as Revealed by the Correspondence of Cicero, Diss. U. of Pennsylvania, 1914, (see Chapter 4, "Letter Writing"). .

Milligan, George. Here and There Among the Papyri. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922.

Milligan, George Selections from the Greek Papyri. Cambridge: The University Press, 1927. -

Mondini, M. Lettere femminili nei papiri greco - egizi , Studi della Scuola papir, 2 (1917), 29 - 50.

Mondini, M. Lettere di soldati , Atene e Roma, 18 (1915), 241 - 60.

Morrow, Glenn R. Studies in the Platonic Epistles , Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, XVIII, Nos. 3 and 4, 1 - 231. (June, 1935), rev. ea., Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill, 1962.

Munro, J. A. R. "A Letter from Antigonus to Scepsis" Journal of Hellenic Studies, 19 (1899), 330 - 340.

Nissen, Th. "Zur Rhythmik und Sprache der Aristainetosbriefe", Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 40 (1940), 1 - 14. -

Novotoy, F. Platonis Epistulae Comentariis Illistratae. Brno, 1930.

Olsson, Bror. Papyrusbriefe aus der fruhesten Romerzeit. Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells Bohtryckeri - A. - B., 1925.

Pasquali, Giorgio. L'Lettere de Platone. Florence, 1938.

Peter, Hermann Georg. Der Brief in der romischen, Literatur (Abhandlungen der philolgisch - historischen Classe der Koniglichen Sachrischen Gesellechaft der Wissenschaften, Band XX, 3.) Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1901

Plezia, M. "De Aristotelis epistulis observationers criticae", Eos, 45 (1951), 77 - 85.

Post, L. A. Thirteen Epistles of Plato: Introduction, Translation and Notes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925

Preaux, Claire. "Quelques caracteres des lettres privees greques a'Egypte", Chronique d'Egypte'7 (1928), 144 - 55.

Preisigke, F. "Familienbriefe aus alter Zeit", Preussiche Jahrbucher, 108 (1902), 88 - 111.

Preisigke, F. "Die ptolemaische Staatspost", Klio, 7 (1907), 241 - 277.

Prsychocki, G. Studium epistolografi greckorzymskie], (in Polish with summary in Latin), Eos, 32 (1938), 41 - 60.

Rabinowitz, Isaac. "A Hebrew Letter of the Second Century from Beth Mashko", BASOR, 131 (1953), 21 - 24.

Richards, H. "The Platonic Letters", Classical Review, 14 (1900), 98 - 103, 385344.

Roberts, W. Rhys. Dionysius of Halicarnassus: The Three Literary Letters, Cambridge: The University Press, 1901.

Roberts, W. Rhys. Demetrius on Style. Cambridge, University Press, 1902.

Roberts, W. Rhys. History of Letter Writing from the Earliest Period to the 5th Century. London: 1848.

Romankowna, M. "L'art epistolaire" (in Polish), Filomata, 1961 - 62, 495 - 504.

Rosenburger, Grek, ed. Griechische Privatbriefe (Papyri Iandanae, Fasc. VI), Leipzig: Teubler, 1934.

Rudiger, Horst. Briefe des Altertums. Zurich and Stuttgart: Artemis Verlag, 1965, (2nd ed.).

Salonis, A. Zur Sprache der griechischen Papyrusbriefe, (Societal Scientiarum Feninica Commentationes llumanarum Litterarum II/3) Helsinki, 1927.

Saunders, Sidney Alan. Studies in Plato's Style in the First Tetralogy (Diss. University of Iowa, 1974) DAI, Jan. 1975, A, 4470.

Schadewalt, W. "Der Brief bei den Griechen. Ein Instrument des Humanen", Studia humanitates: Ernesto Grassi zum 70, Geburtstag, Hum. Bibl. 1, Reihe XVI, Munchen: Fink, 1973, 31 - 42.

Schenkeveld, Dirk M. Studies in Demetrius On Style, Amsterdam: A. M. Hakkert, 1964.

Schmale, Iranz - Josef, "Briefesteller", Lex. f. Theol. Kirche, Vol. 2, (1958),

Schmid, Wilhelm. "Ein epistolographisches Ubungstuck unter den Pariser Papyri", Jahrbuch f. class. Philol. 38 (1892), 692 - 699.

Schneider, J. "Brief", RAC, Vol. 2, Cols. 564 - 585, (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1954).

Schroeter, F. De regum hellenisticorum epistulis in lapidibus servatis questiones stilisticae. Diss. Leipzig: Teubuer, 1932.

Schubert, W. "Bemerkungen zum Stile Hellenistischen Konigsbriefe", Archiv fur Papyrusforschung und Verwandte Gebiete, 6 (1920),324 - 347.

Seeck, Otto. "Der antike Brief", Deutsche Rundschau, 133 (1907), 55 - 70.

Die Briefe des Libanius, zeitlich geordnet, Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1906.

Shelton, John Christian. Some Greek Documentary Papyri From the Michigan Collection: Roman and Byzantine Texts (P. Mich. Shelton), (Stanford University, 1968), Dissertation Abstracts, Vol. 29, Jan. 1969, Part 4A, p. 2166A,(Translations of some correspondence}

Sherwin-White, Adrian Nicholas, ed. Fifty Letters of Pliny, Oxford University Press, 1969, 2nd ed.

Sherwin-White, Adrian Nicholas The Letters of Pliny: A Historical and Social Commentary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.

Smolka, F. "Letteres de soldats ecrits sur papyrus", Eos, 32 (1929), 153 - 164.

Steen, Henry A. "Les Cliches epistolaires dans letteres sur papyrus grecques" Classica et mediaevalia, I (1938), 119 - 176.

Strodack, George V. The Philosophy of Epicurus: letters, doctrines and parallel passages from Lucretius; translated with commentary and an introductory essay on ancient materialism, Northwestern University Press, 1963.

Stube, R. Der Himmelsbrief. Tubingen, 1918.

Svoboda, K. "La forme litteraire dela philosophic grecque" (in Czech), Listy Filologicke (Prague), (1933), 249 - 263, 401 - 421.

Sykutris, Johannes. Die Briefe des Sokrates und der Sokratiker, Paderborn: 1933.

Sykutris, Johannes "Epistolographie", Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Alertumswissenschaft, Supplementband 5, 1931, Cols. 185 - 220.

Sykutris, Johannes Probleme der byzantinischen Epistolograpihie, Actes 3 Congress international des etudes byzantincs (Session d'Athenes, Oct. 1930), ed. by A. C. Orlandos, Athenes and llestia, 1932, 295 - 310.

Thraede, K. "Flugel der Seele, II (Briefmotiv)", RAC, (1969), Lief, 57, 65 - 67.

Thraede, K. "Grundzuge griechisch - romischer Brieftopik", (Zetemata 48), Munich: Beck, 1970.

Tomadanis, N. W. (A series of works in modern Greek on letters of the Byzantine era), Athens: Myrtidou, 1969, E. E. Ath XIX, 1968 - 69, 9 - 34; E. E. Ath XX, 1969 - 70, 9 - 20, (see L'Annee Philologique for abbreviation).

Torraca, Luigi, ed M. Junius Brutus: Epistole greche. Napoli: Libreria scientifica editrice, 1959.

Torrey, Charles C. "The Letters Prefixed to Second Maccabees", JAOS, 60 (1940), 119 - 150.

Traub, Henry W. "Pliny's Treatment of History in Epistolary Form", Transactions of the American Philosophical Association, 86 (1955), 213 - 32.

Tsitimbas, D. A. Sprichworter und sprichwortliche Redensarten bei den Epistolographen der Zweiten Sophistik Alkiphron - Cl. Aelianus, Diss.: Munchen, 1936.

Turner, E. B. Greek Papyri: An Introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967.

Wagner, M. Monica, C. S. C. "A Chapter in Byzantine Epistolography: The Letters of Theodoret of Cyrus", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, No. 4, Cambridge, 1948, 119 - 181.

Weichert, Valentin, ed. Demetrii et Libanni qui feruntur Typoi Rpistolikoi et Epistolimaioi Characteres, Leipaig: B. G. Teuboer, 1910.

Welles, Charles Bradford. Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period; A Study in Greek Epigraphy, New Haven: Yale University, 1934.

Weber, F. "La lettre d'amitie dans l'antiquite greco Ð latine", Revue des Etudes Grecques, 87 1973, 260 - 263.

Westermann, Anton. De epistolarum scriptoribus Graecis, Leipzig: 1851 - 1858.

White, John L. The Form and Function of the Body of the Greek Letter, Missoula: Scholars Press (Dissertation Series 5), 1972.

Wifstrand, A. Griechische Privatbriefe aus der Papyrussammlung in Lund. Lund, 1937.

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von. Platon, 2. Bande, Berlin: Weidmann, 1919 - 1920.

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von "Lesefruchte", Hermes, 33 (1898), 529ff, (relevant to 2 3 John).

Wilhelm, Adolf. Griedrische Konigsbriefe, Klio, Beiheft, XLVIII, NF, 35, Scientia Aalen, 1960.

Winniczuk, L. Ovid's Elegie und die epistolographische Theorie: Publius Ovidius Naso, Meander, 12 (1957), 39 - 70.

Winter, John Garrett. Life and Letters in the Papyri. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1933.

Witkowski, Stanislaus, ed. Epistulae Privatne Graecae Quae in Papyris Aetatis Lagidarum Servantur. Leipzig; B. G. Tuebner, 191, 2nd ed.

Wright, F. A. (trans. ). Alciphron: Letters from the Country and the Town, London, 1926.

Wright, F. A. "Oaths in the Greek Epistolographers." American Journal of Philology, 1918, 64 - 74.

Youtie, H. C. " shmei'on in the Papyri and its Significance for Plato, Epistle 13, (360a - b)", Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik'62 (1970), 105 - 114.

Ziemann, Ferdinand. De Epistularum Graecarum Formulis Sollemnibus Quaestiones Selectae, Berlin: Haas, 1912.

Zilliacus, Henrik. Zur Sprache griechisher Familienbriefe des III. Jahrhundrets n. Chr. (P. Michigan 214 - 221), (Societal Scientiarum Fennica Commetationes Humaniarum Litterarum XIII.3) Helsingfors, 1943.

II. Ancient Non - Christian Letters - - Genre and Form

Baemer, M. L., ed. Topos Forschung. (Wege der Forschung, CXCV) Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchgesellschaft, 1973.

Breaslau, H. "Ein Lateinischer Empfehlungsbrief", Archiv. f. Papyrusforschung, 3 (1906), 168 - 72.

Brinckmann, W. Der Begriff der Freundschaft in Senecas Briefen. Philos. Diss,: Koln, 1963.

Gerhard, G. A. "Die Formel HO DEINA TO DEINI CHAREIN", Philologus, 64 (1905), 27 - 65.

Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des griechischen Briefes, Heft 1, "Die Anfangsformel" (Diss. Heidelberg) Tubingen, 1903.

Keyes, Clinton W. "The Greek Letter of Introduction", American Journal of Philology, 56, No. 221 (1935), 28 - 44.

Lanham, Carol Dana. Salutatio Formulas in Latin Letters to 1200: Syntax, Style and Theory, (Diss.: UCLA, 1973) DAI, (Oct. 1973), A, 1878 - 1879.

Leeman, A. D. ''The Epistolary Form of Sen. Ep. 102", Philologus, 4 (1951), 175181.

Pease, E. M. "The Greeting in the Letters of Cicero", in Studies in honor of Basil L. Glidersleeve, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1902, 395 - 464.

Pfeiffer, Robert H. "Assyrian Epistolary Formulae", JAOS, 43 (1923), 26 - 40.

Schering, O. Symbola ad Socratis et Socraticorum epistulas explicandas, Diss.: Greifewald, 1917.

White, John L. "The Form and Structure of the Official Petition: A Study in Greek Epistolography", Master's Thesis, Vanderbilt University, 1968.

III. Ancient Non - Christian Letters - - Authenticity and Integrity

Adam, Rudolf. Uber die Echtheit der platonischen Briefen, (Wissenschaftliche Beilage zum Jahresbericht des Folk - Realgymasiums zu Berlin, Oster, 1906), Berlin: Weidmann, 1906.

Adam, Rudolph. "Ueber die platonischen Briefe", Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, 23 (1909 - 1910), 29 - 52

Blass, Friedrich. "Unechte Briefe", Rheinisches Museum fur Philologie, 54 (1899), 33_39

Blass, Friedrich. "Ueber die Echtheit der Demosthenes Namen tragenden Briefe", (Jahresbericht iber das Konigliche Wilhelms - Gymasium zu Konigsberg), Konigsberg, 1875.

Raeder, Hans. "Ueber die Echtheit der platonischen Briefe", Rheinische Museum fur classische Philologie, 61 (1906), 427 - 471, 511 - 542.

Sint, Joseph A. Pseudonymitat in Altertum, Ihre Formen und Ihre Grunde, (commentationes aeriportanae, 15) Innsbruck, 1960.

Smith, Leslie. Francis. The Genuineness of the Ninth and Third Letters of - Isocrates. Diss: Columbia, 1940.

Speyer, W. "Religiose Pseudepigraphie und Literarische Falschung im Altertum", JAC, (Jahrbuch fur Antike und Christentum), 8 - 9 (1965 - 66), 88 - 125.

Wilamowitz - Moellendorff, Ulrich von. "Unechte Briefe", Hermes: Zeitschrift fur classische Philologie, 33 (1898), 492 - 498.

Willrich, Hugo. Urkunden falschung in der hellenistischen - judischen Literatur, Gottingen, 1924.